2026-07-29T03:02:02Z https://nostr.ae Matthew Sheffield https://nostr.ae/npub1t4p0etmcuzf0mxhw4s76mjrjngr7zcwdefp8n9y0e8sjfj0tvu3ql25qhu https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/478/299/original/97240df961a44d3b.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/478/299/original/97240df961a44d3b.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsthze4t24agukajjzpprd0erpyuvz4p2dzh0x878aj5fmsj68fh4gzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy9d37zj Fundamental physics has long strongly suggested that time is not a basic property of the universe. It is a local emergent byproduct of quantum interaction. <br/><br/>We still need more experimental proof for the math though, and it&#39;s starting to come in.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s a short piece discussing an experiment that really opens up how the emergence of time can work: <br/><br/><a href="https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientist-miniuniverse-clock.html">https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientist-miniuniverse-clock.html</a><br/><br/>And of course, time emergence has zero to do with human thought.<br/><br/>#physics #philosophy #science #quantum 2026-06-12T19:11:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst9u97vcssegn97sa8s6a3zwhpm44asn4ql6v9rx36alwnvdn8xrszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyu435p7 1/2 Add beluga whales to the mirror test passers:<br/><br/>✅ Baby humans<br/>✅ Several primates<br/>✅ Elephants<br/>✅ Dolphins &amp; orcas<br/>✅ Horses<br/>✅ Mimic octopus<br/>✅ House mouse<br/><br/>Disputed passers <br/>✅ Crows &amp; magpies<br/>✅ Myrmica ants<br/>✅ Cleaner wrasse fish<br/><br/>Mirror tests are unreliable for many species but still very interesting <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/belugas-can-recognize-themselves-in-mirrors-joining-a-short-list-of-non-human-species-that-show-signs-of-self-awareness-180988783/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/belugas-can-recognize-themselves-in-mirrors-joining-a-short-list-of-non-human-species-that-show-signs-of-self-awareness-180988783/</a> 2026-06-06T17:18:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8ffmvfar0ng60432und0knkmyd6z2jcmaxu4ghmyu5rme2cws4rczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjygftu83 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspgfvghjycmch4qz58dkyq6lvasqmxugv2nmd8f2765q697l79m7gqdj7v6'>nevent1q…j7v6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And just in case you have not seen the stats, the average cost of a date is now about $200. <br/><br/>That&#39;s beyond the price of many regular people <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/is-dating-worth-it-anymore-average-cost-of-dating-nears-200-dollars/">https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/is-dating-worth-it-anymore-average-cost-of-dating-nears-200-dollars/</a> 2026-06-04T20:42:40Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspgfvghjycmch4qz58dkyq6lvasqmxugv2nmd8f2765q697l79m7gzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjymlk9w0 People can&#39;t afford to date or have kids, but let&#39;s blame &#34;heteropessimism&#34; instead.<br/><br/>Trumpism is crushing the middle class out of existence, that&#39;s why people aren&#39;t having sex as much. No amount of shaming them is going to reverse that. Love is a luxury when you&#39;re just trying to survive.<br/><br/>I appreciate that the author is trying to keep romance alive. We deserve beauty and all it entails. But flowers don&#39;t grow in dry and untilled ground.<br/><br/><a href="https://archive.is/HyvY9">https://archive.is/HyvY9</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/693/764/183/618/555/original/ec292e33b15477ab.png"> <br/> 2026-06-04T20:09:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdwnjrcm0hjkyw42uv9h7dpzuyn0juxl4m4pl2nw82jj4v06udfwczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyvusnn8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg0dcawez9j6g4gj9n5rdl0yxjlk23z6ja07e35x8ku8kd2up4tzch6yej5'>nevent1q…yej5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yes, that would be the normal reaction. Unfortunately, the con-artist shamwow persona is actually very normalized within Southern Evangelicalism. The carnival and the church were one and the same for a long time. 2026-06-02T21:00:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxwq3ut85kylhs0jvllgccnn59vk3qgunsahk6h43uc83nd84m5xgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyaessvn Reactionary Evangelicalism is more of a political machine than a religion. MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn recently made this clear, telling his followers to abandon all moral principles and blindly obey Trump’s every desire.<br/><br/>&#34;Lay down your convictions. We don&#39;t need them right now. Lay down your principles.&#34;<br/><br/>This is how radicalized pretty much every Republican Evangelical has become. They’ve rejected ethics and morality in favor of power.<br/><br/>More on the history &amp; theology here: <a href="https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2021/05/liz-cheney-epistemic-collapse-conservatism">https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2021/05/liz-cheney-epistemic-collapse-conservatism</a><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/682/023/932/980/478/original/953e82228034a969.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-06-02T18:54:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv86pe5w9n8eshezmmxy044zl6dz9mne8d47jg34sk8xngmxefvrqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyldr7vr Olo is the ultimate teal, so teal that humans can&#39;t naturally see it. Mary&#39;s Room is real 😆, just not with red. <br/><br/> Super interesting research:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-discover-new-color-thats-impossible-to-see-without-lasering-your/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-discover-new-color-thats-impossible-to-see-without-lasering-your/</a> <br/><br/>#philosophy 2026-06-01T22:39:13Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd5yhy74yfpp8u3ejejfdefe6m3eypvrf8u2a776c5yqj5t7z65pqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyp3scwg RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116402716327956884">https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116402716327956884</a><br/><br/>Wonderful news<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1qc37sg40q3526mm4fk5v6252v5zyxyqvqcn9f4arpuw6vdnp4tyqtp6yyg" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1qc3…6yyg</a></span><br/> </div> We’re happy to share that Mastodon has been awarded a service agreement from the Sovereign Tech Fund <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1yng6dx32zrl2qhp2kq26al7uzkwqkugrkaxf4gsycs9r5snrkjdqlznhrk" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Sovereign Tech Agency</span> (<span class="italic">npub1yng…nhrk</span>)</a></span> 🎉<br/><br/>This covers five major initiatives through 2026 and 2027. We are very grateful for this support. Read about the details in our blog post. <br/><br/><a href="https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/">https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/</a> </blockquote> 2026-06-01T04:00:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8h40e0vls8d36dapr4j48mujs4yj0ufzujxaagpntwu0up4jkw9gzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy6v7gfs Change my mind: Non-eliminative physicalism cannot evade the hard problem of consciousness without slowly transforming into dualism or panpsychism. <br/><br/>If you think phenomenal experience (qualia) is real and created by minds, there is nowhere else to go except dualism or panpsychism/pan-experientialism.<br/><br/>The only way to avoid supernaturalism is saying qualia create minds. <br/><br/><a href="https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/01/its-like-this-why-perceptions-are-our-realities/">https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/01/its-like-this-why-perceptions-are-our-realities/</a><br/><br/>#philosophy 2026-05-29T00:32:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstcg9nqs7hz4chkdjd0hte63umeucqvxn97lj3clrks9x7dljan9qzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyf9wxwj I&#39;m reading through this now and it seems like the authors love to define terms and then never use them again, including bizarre ones like &#34;gods.&#34;<br/><br/>It&#39;s not light reading, but it&#39;s directly related to #ml <br/><br/><a href="https://cimc.ai/cimcHypothesis.pdf">https://cimc.ai/cimcHypothesis.pdf</a><br/><br/>#philosophy 2026-05-26T22:44:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8zzr2nv7xe8ad68z63nq5sp9ym4wwxl3jnu9wa498uttfkhtmatgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy3vcnwj LinkedIn has always been trash. But now it&#39;s almost entirely slop. <br/><br/>Corporate executives are paying Filipinos to use AI to ghostwrite posts which these same people then reply to with congratulatory comments.<br/><br/>This is the doom loop future internet that oligarchs want everywhere. <a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/">https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/</a> 2026-05-21T03:40:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw25sa203dyredlp3mz9qwl5qf9mpa00x9kqyffacnan85cahrqwqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy6eypnj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx7a3zfl0gtzfzfsj7flwen4rww05mh0f2y6d2cxfdu5xph36plngsj43ev'>nevent1q…43ev</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yes, there is a lot of shitty bullshit in this world. But we have to stop doomscrolling and start helping each other if we ever want something better.<br/><br/>We have to imagine better things constantly, and how we get there. Whining about Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Tino Chrupalla, etc. does nothing. Normies. Do. Not. Care.<br/><br/>We have to go beyond the personal scandals and attack the far right&#39;s ideas. The average person doesn&#39;t know what they&#39;re about, and how they seek to harm the public. 2026-05-20T22:21:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx7a3zfl0gtzfzfsj7flwen4rww05mh0f2y6d2cxfdu5xph36plngzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8jdp69 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2q577axdwkpgh7zlwu5gxu5jhkxjux3nxa995hx3jv394ax767agjeuvrt'>nevent1q…uvrt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There have been dozens of books and probably hundreds of naive panels dedicated to hand-wringing about how Trump is mean and lies, how Fox and Xitter are cesspools, and how AI can be magically banned.<br/><br/>This is 101 stuff. Time to create alternatives and face the facts.<br/><br/>You cannot fact-check your way out of fascism. Trump will be a menace until he&#39;s dead. Popularism doesn&#39;t work.<br/><br/>AI is too useful for people to ever go away, even if it&#39;s not useful to you. 2026-05-20T22:18:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2q577axdwkpgh7zlwu5gxu5jhkxjux3nxa995hx3jv394ax767agzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyp08qx6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszdn686prwkhksg9dy8eawn0plqcaxzvtr73f0tslsltkdlnxexksmz7y25'>nevent1q…7y25</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you read the Wired excerpt of his book, the entire thing sounds like it was made by ChatGPT or Claude. It has the style marks all over it:<br/><br/>&#34;It&#39;s not X, it&#39;s Y.&#34;<br/><br/>This is an exact quote:<br/><br/>&#34;That verdict, built by millions of young people navigating this system together, is already in.&#34;<br/><br/>This is trash writing, even if it was human-generated. Totally cliched airport book dross.<br/><br/><a href="https://archive.is/HjOSC">https://archive.is/HjOSC</a> 2026-05-20T22:16:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszdn686prwkhksg9dy8eawn0plqcaxzvtr73f0tslsltkdlnxexkszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyy7s0pf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsddv20rjxzld5ar26hfw9a37dt3699lgw9qyknzuq0j59mrrf3tas7l4rjq'>nevent1q…4rjq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The guy seems to be one of a zillion liberal grifters who vacuum up liberal C3 bucks and never accomplish much of anything. Just a handwringer who flatters rich old people and never does anything substantial.<br/><br/>He&#39;s not on Bluesky or Mastodon, despite supposedly being concerned about truthful information. He is on Elon Musk&#39;s hellsite, though. 2026-05-20T22:15:07Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsddv20rjxzld5ar26hfw9a37dt3699lgw9qyknzuq0j59mrrf3taszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyy72sle 🧵 A book called &#34;The Future of Truth&#34; has been exposed as filled with AI-generated fake quotations.<br/><br/>The author, Steven Rosenbaum, presents himself as an expert in media and technology, but basically no one seems to have heard of the guy. <br/><br/>I looked through his Xitter feed and he has never once mentioned Anthropic or Claude. He doesn&#39;t know about interpretability.<br/><br/>If you read the book, the whole thing seems to be AI slop. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/media/future-of-truth-ai-quotes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.ypdI.raPxVDZEXxu-">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/media/future-of-truth-ai-quotes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.ypdI.raPxVDZEXxu-</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/609/131/428/663/317/original/3f4129b83dcccfa4.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/609/131/952/209/705/original/a78e7cce9529098b.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/609/132/348/338/677/original/70de0ce14b8e2690.png"> <br/> 2026-05-20T22:13:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2y2qt3yh8n9cca067szn9skewwee3vz255e8895cmfwu6fgdtq3czypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyzj7yt6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd4lzlgx3r83fjq5pw5r6mgmvqe8tu4nsu9rehtdcf0ywgt3mruxqma8fk6'>nevent1q…8fk6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Richard Dawkins&#39;s Claude delusion didn&#39;t happen because he&#39;s elderly, it happened because he has a broken view of human minds--especially those of others <a href="https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/05/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion/">https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/05/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion/</a> 2026-05-03T06:19:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd4lzlgx3r83fjq5pw5r6mgmvqe8tu4nsu9rehtdcf0ywgt3mruxqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyspy693 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg54q360zsjh9sufnsnx0jmuuz20q3f5mv5yp5gyxfxeczwjpjxlgykzau2'>nevent1q…zau2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>LLMs are mirrors of their users. It&#39;s no coincidence that narcissists like Richard Dawkins keep writing essays about how their AI girlfriend is alive. <br/><br/>Nor can he see the complete hypocrisy of gendering a software execution state while also believing that human beings cannot be trans.<br/><br/>The &#34;End of History&#34; guy wrote this exact same article a year ago: <a href="https://www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt-teacher">https://www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt-teacher</a> 2026-05-01T20:39:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgflv5dhmjcsm2u9kvugwtqlq8gvvgu758l8wtvrhp5km3kgua7jszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy7t8tr7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsql0r900sld04tkulnmugay73h5jvwnp26ds5quydc2pt5gpyccvcycktep'>nevent1q…ktep</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Used without understanding and awareness of what they are, they can create and magnify delusions. 2026-05-01T20:37:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9pl6v0rklv9h2kfqwr87guekqnv4pg3mthyp0aypcqvp9qdm58hczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy3vddcp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs03kkvwfvtn5n6dxvf4a0a84wmt3p22xhh3kaqzxwpu5qqfa2mj5sqam6ms'>nevent1q…m6ms</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>LLMs are mind augmentation programs. They amplify what you tell them.<br/><br/>They can be very useful, but for narcissists like Dawkins, this is the inevitable product. 2026-05-01T19:42:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg54q360zsjh9sufnsnx0jmuuz20q3f5mv5yp5gyxfxeczwjpjxlgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8neg54 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstz2whlvj8xtmzlj2ga3lmewxgy7xgu8jwqyek2nfpfq5ny6fcteqjjdqpl'>nevent1q…dqpl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Dawkins is a great example of how people who have a naturalistic view of &#34;real patterns&#34; but don&#39;t have a process ontology will end up in metaphysical dualism unintentionally.<br/><br/>Minds are not software, they are what specific bodies are doing as they engage with the world. <a href="https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/01/its-like-this-why-perceptions-are-our-realities/">https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2026/01/its-like-this-why-perceptions-are-our-realities/</a> 2026-05-01T19:39:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstz2whlvj8xtmzlj2ga3lmewxgy7xgu8jwqyek2nfpfq5ny6fcteqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjywnye65 In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis.<br/><br/>Paywall bypass if you want to torture yourself: <a href="https://archive.is/6RdK9">https://archive.is/6RdK9</a><br/><br/>#atheism<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/500/985/601/301/045/original/fbfcebf1872ef52c.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/500/987/170/328/629/original/1cc161a5b64d34b9.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/500/989/265/699/628/original/54f6ebb73f0aa05d.png"> <br/> 2026-05-01T19:34:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyw6ypqklekda9mdtq7r2lr4dns5zzndh9jem2v7d69j0tp6szppszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyd7z0rr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg3cm8j2uhq2rmw4td08xks9gztkzjsvs6ktqqpp2f0j72vp04lwg6m0dyt'>nevent1q…0dyt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>They&#39;re printing papers describing the power of propaganda. The artist is holding one. 2026-04-29T20:49:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8htua4wdecue2gj0g98j02ygnjrh38mn6yslv4avwacjqjuthunczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyrdgd6d This new art exhibit featuring Boston Dynamics robot dogs with the heads of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and others is incredibly striking and disturbing.<br/><br/>“In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple, the artist who created them, told the AP. &#34;Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don&#39;t see.&#34; <br/><br/><a href="https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad68c27beedfe83a">https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad68c27beedfe83a</a><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/489/725/232/637/665/original/fb8ad43b9db30b4c.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-04-29T19:50:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdlpwh73yamnv4falwn6zlk33ee4hh259pnrg8t53lh3qpcnhks3szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy5pe7g3 The most dangerous of RFK Junior&#39;s many crazy beliefs is his opinion that germs are not the primary causes of disease. Instead, he believes in a completely unproven notion called &#34;terrain theory.&#34;<br/><br/>He was finally asked about terrain theory by Bernie Sanders yesterday: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/rfk-jr-s-rejection-of-germ-theory-debunked-in-senate-hearing/">https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/rfk-jr-s-rejection-of-germ-theory-debunked-in-senate-hearing/</a> 2026-04-23T19:35:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgggzzdk7t586h9p8n9mgcsdqgc6vu8vydum6utd2xmt5yy0pr6lqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyx4drvf Republicans are flooding social media with AI generated videos featuring fictitious people all saying verbatim talking points.<br/><br/>I&#39;m uploading the Times&#39;s collage of some of the clips.<br/><br/>Edit to add: The video has no sound, just in case you were wondering.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/business/media/artificial-intelligence-trump-social-media.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/business/media/artificial-intelligence-trump-social-media.html</a><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/427/963/588/056/527/original/714211833008fb95.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-04-18T22:02:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspex2v9dfzgsn479as5ns3twk7j226x2t6u5mpyexje3vw00553vqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyje5f9g The annual budget for USAID, which was allegedly a huge waste, was only $31 billion. Trump has already spent more than that on his Iran war in just a few weeks.<br/><br/>And last month, the White House estimated it would request $200 billion for war, a number likely to go up.<br/><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/hegseth-iran-war-budget.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/hegseth-iran-war-budget.html</a> 2026-04-15T20:24:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstddcysl09qd82tch4rej3tpqav04f7stvhhe9uajrtzu8gcu82jqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyqy87ee Science cannot live by LLM alone, part 12,386. <br/><br/>As an experiment, Almira Osmanovic Thunström published fake papers about a fake eye disease that credited Professor Maria Bohm of Starfleet Academy. They were said to be funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation in partnership with the University of the Fellowship of the Ring.<br/><br/>Despite such obvious trickery, within a few weeks, chatbots were citing the studies as real:<br/><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y</a> 2026-04-10T18:51:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvjqchdmpfvd4yek38qmwdd50c35glgklu2xgrkk2yj26xg0duzjczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyyuh0ru RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/116369799271818568">https://mastodon.social/@ZachWeinersmith/116369799271818568</a><br/><br/>If there ever were a cartoon destined for the fine folks monitoring #philosophy...<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note16hf8ndqszfvvw0ueazzyfdmudh38uywyg6nl2fhq6m6w4gksv28sv8yjy0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note16hf…yjy0</a></span><br/> </div> Mary<br/>Bonus panel here: <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mary">http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mary</a> #smbc #comics<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/369/795/738/210/629/original/3518b787a03d0d99.png"> <br/> </blockquote> 2026-04-08T16:34:44Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdtpmllcphguqfyzujtll3w22v7pvfduufss5ruxdmgy2vyfwf2aszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyumxtsy A sad day for more than 120 #AssociatedPress employees as the organization announced that it is having to close down its newspaper-focused business, which represents only 10% of its revenue and is shrinking. More buyouts are expected.<br/><br/>The general public does not seem to value information quality, and at this point only governments will be able to sustain quality #journalism. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-buyouts-ap-newspapers-dd790effc6a385514b3323560161ea4f">https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-buyouts-ap-newspapers-dd790effc6a385514b3323560161ea4f</a> 2026-04-06T20:59:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspt6emar0kt6jmujuxpk00zsvfwvsks6y5mgcksdf8ngd0dp0l25czypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyaljqtv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgmmut25sdz92hhz0kw5t3uq742v2nw0pm6vm9luevycjcaa9c9rqcznyhw'>nevent1q…nyhw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is that because you know it&#39;s AI though? Given that 97% of people cannot tell the difference, what if you didn&#39;t know the context?<br/><br/>There&#39;s so much formulaic music made by assembly lines of people who stitch the components together and then the singer is auto-tuned to hell while singing it. 2026-04-02T01:41:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspyn3g8uqw75rgwz455j9pzgk2rdn6l7hnrwekyrh346x2qmyetfqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyeeg08e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs02upct4vah8l7h28keless3ccae2c0vvm4wycf3g8jusq3jx0dngtq9yms'>nevent1q…9yms</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Eddie Dalton had 3 of the top 5 Apple Music songs, and all of the songs released on YouTube have hundreds of thousands of views within just days.<br/><br/>People absolutely love it.<br/><br/>&#34;This song has touched the depth of my soul,&#34; one listener wrote on YouTube.<br/><br/>You can listen here:<br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5FSZzm-k8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5FSZzm-k8</a> 2026-04-02T01:24:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs02upct4vah8l7h28keless3ccae2c0vvm4wycf3g8jusq3jx0dngzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyunl5vx 🧵 AI-generated soul music by &#34;Eddie Dalton&#34; is taking over iTunes, YouTube, and Spotify--raising the question of where humans think beauty and art lives.<br/><br/>Software-made music has gotten so good now that 97 percent of people cannot differentiate it from human-made music.<br/><a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalton-isnt-real-but-what-does">https://plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalton-isnt-real-but-what-does</a> 2026-04-02T01:23:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd9e0w0gtyp0f9v4n6m5wha40cwcmnx8u4ge3ahkzm9c8skkvk2wszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjym94xga All valid epistemologies are similar, while each faulty epistemology is incorrect in its own way.<br/><br/>#philosophy 2026-03-25T21:13:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszuznrvaqv9vfwgs7r4hd9hnee47qpawaxtmgn26zf92ernqvlknqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyz9sj6w Just one day after Republican billionaire Bill Ackman gave his best wishes to an obviously AI-generated young white woman comes news that a million thirsty MAGA men have been following and buying foot fetish pics from an fake soldier named &#34;Jessica Foster.&#34; <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91507096/jessica-foster-popular-maga-influencer-ai-model">https://www.fastcompany.com/91507096/jessica-foster-popular-maga-influencer-ai-model</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/213/795/670/268/417/original/8374209f1a8e4f32.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/213/814/117/268/809/original/8639f232f8fdcd8b.png"> <br/> 2026-03-12T02:26:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsppj2lp5jq3ahgdld5p9ft7r3xhjlr30zqvhkuqpym2cs2e2mgn9czypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy0etq67 The young and racial minority voters who powered Trump&#39;s 2024 victory are very much against his Iran war <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/207604/trump-iran-maga-crack-up">https://newrepublic.com/article/207604/trump-iran-maga-crack-up</a> 2026-03-11T18:35:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgw7f9329duryrssqev5c2f24ztsl4gvtw4qygtzfsp6rkqqephxczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyz4qw4p Trump&#39;s Iran policy in three panels<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/205/823/678/053/838/original/7a5455586c6aeecb.png"> <br/> 2026-03-10T16:31:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdmwg523lz4etzvwtvyferav4umu0wgvj6nz4w55dg7vk3cs98rcgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy9qe5jt Donald Trump lies constantly, and yet almost never gets confronted to his face about his obvious deceptions. <br/><br/>The New York Times&#39;s Shawn McCreesh did something today that should happen in every Trump news conference, he actually asked Trump about one of his most blatant lies. It did not go well for Trump:<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/202/611/060/655/241/original/058d15193346a9ec.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-03-10T02:54:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxc0n2w93vlltsmmh38te8lkaqechp662an6ys05069pg3mgzx8dczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyylkkj4 #BlueSky CEO Jay Graber announced that she is resigning. Toni Schneider, former CEO of Automattic (WordPress maker) and partner at True Ventures, will replace her <a href="https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky">https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky</a> 2026-03-09T19:42:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf8l9ag6djthh4l4nv8hqyy8e4d60ewyxpgv8nvt8fghsn7aj3ypgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8jyefn Trump literally doing the Lord Farquaad meme. He&#39;s handing truckloads of rhetorical gifts to the Democratic campaign ads every single day now.<br/><br/>&#34;Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://time.com/7382697/trump-iran-war/">https://time.com/7382697/trump-iran-war/</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/180/013/520/937/704/original/85778b1d911e0af0.png"> <br/> 2026-03-06T03:08:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdxs8usefnyvqj5qsuyqj0qn5arrsp9rtxg2k0gwvk85atxhx60dqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjykz0x6s Science magazine has an informative article about 3 male scientists who resisted Jeffrey Epstein&#39;s attempts to network with them.<br/><br/>The one thing all have in common is that they listened to women&#39;s advice. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/why-three-scientists-said-no-epstein">https://www.science.org/content/article/why-three-scientists-said-no-epstein</a> 2026-03-04T20:11:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxae4mxn20qmne2mt9j9m2t3x5apl8lqxn2tu9uy9s8tkkuktn4pszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyugky3s In case you were wondering, before this morning&#39;s Iran attack, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. <br/><br/>Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were first used 24 hours earlier. <br/><br/>Betting prediction websites are national security risks, not Anthropic.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/151/462/584/048/068/original/a7943e9b3e3db568.png"> <br/> 2026-03-01T02:05:24Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2cd87kx6adq77t92f96vr2fh3pw6ql6sap6lgwpdpntweykkn6wczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyqhkguv The stupidity and corruption of Pete Hegseth knows no bounds. In the latest instance, the AI company Anthropic says it doesn&#39;t want its products to have full autonomy to guide weapons since it doesn&#39;t think the software is reliable enough. <br/><br/>Hegseth is threatening to terminate Anthropic&#39;s contract because of this stance. He wants a product known to be unreliable to control weapons. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei">https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei</a> 2026-02-25T03:28:50Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdtgkdrhwrcjpq5n6xv8vmryvlger74tkxqkm6hfry6yu37p7mddqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyujgtdu Instead of watching Trump lie and ramble for hours tonight, you should watch, listen, or read the latest Theory of Change episode in which Jeet Heer and I discuss how tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are literally basing their politics on sci-fi novels.<br/><br/>This is the most comprehensive deep-dive I have seen on the subject. I had a lot of fund with it, and I think you will as well: <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/why-big-tech-billionaires-are-trying">https://plus.flux.community/p/why-big-tech-billionaires-are-trying</a> 2026-02-24T21:04:56Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg8vc3jayv93j4w023r2rwnkp9p9a98rcm7zex3n4jrzfvlsw9fpszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyay2kqt Super cool: Glass as the new permanent storage medium--potentially lasting more than 10,000 years <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w</a> 2026-02-20T02:05:46Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyj9mm3m0pgkhve8xhkgt8uxd0y353xzfpf2gg43rmgqej0p4hhzgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyyahz6c Mid-20th century America saw a profusion of rationalist cults which used scientific and philosophical rhetoric to gain legitimacy.<br/><br/>Scientology is the only one that has survived, but there were others, including the &#34;general semantics&#34; of Alfred Korzybski, which is like Dunning Kruger analytic philosophy.<br/><br/>Ayn Rand and innumerable quantum woo peddlers like Robert Anton Wilson are others.<br/><br/>Recording next week on this.<br/><br/>#philosophy #science 2026-02-13T19:09:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxv8mzuz5ufxh96lcf7lc5q3yzf579ezspusgy3eltcntqxmf9pfczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyy0e5pa Companies selling open source software should be using open source groupware. Fully agree with <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub19ygpp4ke3znm5tj6umraddlj8ge8pwel7zjsc35h5gvpx364jv3q05w8um" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>lproven</span> (<span class="italic">npub19yg…w8um</span>)</a></span> here: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/suse_runs_ms/">https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/suse_runs_ms/</a> 2026-02-13T17:42:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0cmh8eec6l7vd7tv8yr6st626unkhtvvfks9j7qklxs53fj0dglgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyut4q0e Young Republican men rage that young women have gone left so overwhelmingly. But it&#39;s obvious why they&#39;ve done so.<br/><br/>Why would any reasonably intelligent woman who isn&#39;t religiously indoctrinated want to be in a party of forced birth that&#39;s run by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein?<br/><br/>Why would they join a party filled with young men who agree with Nick Fuentes that all women should be imprisoned?<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/059/301/495/674/116/original/1b15bef1653b3915.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-02-12T19:28:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrle28nfpx9r6p8ndszra8k0378q4k2e8wkuwn9u9hg9m8374vlagzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyplyr2w LGB without the T people are truly in the Leopards Eating Faces Party.<br/><br/>Trump just removed a Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument. He&#39;s coming for you next, don&#39;t kid yourselves. <br/><br/>Source: <br/><a href="https://gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbow-flag-stonewall-national-monument/">https://gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbow-flag-stonewall-national-monument/</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/044/402/450/352/647/original/b7e9396b136d75f2.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/044/402/871/974/363/original/42a9987f90b785af.png"> <br/> 2026-02-10T04:25:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszd9nlepggf3xcgcpe89arjngvcxy9q0zz0hw3gvyrtc0jxw75sxqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy5prju4 In our post-capitalist system, AI companies can relentlessly violate copyright law by profiting from models based on pirated content, but people who actually want to read the books at Anna&#39;s Archive are the bad guys.<br/><br/>This isn&#39;t an either/or scenario, judges. It&#39;s both or none.<br/><br/><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/judge-orders-annas-archive-to-delete-scraped-data-no-one-thinks-it-will-comply/">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/judge-orders-annas-archive-to-delete-scraped-data-no-one-thinks-it-will-comply/</a> 2026-02-09T23:40:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqusf6qg0jcx8nanhha628g2try78yke5fgdgp6n5wgfxcdlvuteczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy9psar4 Just when you thought that Robert Kennedy Junior could not get more insane, here he is on Fox claiming that junk food is &#34;spiritual warfare.&#34; <br/><br/>And of course, he spews his usual post hoc fallacy about lower healthcare spending in past years on conditions that were barely diagnosed.<br/><br/>I should note also that Kennedy was a great friend of Jeffrey Epstein and in the interview, he&#39;s touting Brett Ratner, a fellow Epstein pal and fellow sexual predator who directed the &#34;Melania&#34; propaganda film.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/038/541/666/383/345/original/b3303c5d6ab7b910.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-02-09T03:27:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszw5zt05kcfzat93svdkzxuhmzcxggf5j7rr03w86uux327rhzzygzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyvnw685 George Carlin famously said that politics and economy are &#34;a big club and you ain&#39;t in it.&#34; <br/><br/>The #Epstein files are showing how right he was, especially this one, in which Epstein cackles with his pal Peter Thiel about how #Brexit was &#34;just the beginning&#34; of their plans to destroy governments and institute a &#34;return to tribalism.&#34;<br/><br/>They elected Trump knowing that he is a corrupt/evil imbecile who destroys anything he touches.<br/><br/>It&#39;s all about buying the dip <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02459362.pdf">https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02459362.pdf</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/004/493/423/326/555/original/244fcc051f0b5b8d.png"> <br/> 2026-02-03T03:10:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszz8zaypktmndyrf6h2vv46qfun99zlyt2emhx93qv7w4rhf88jlgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyv872t6 The Trump regime&#39;s medical scam point man, Mehmet Oz, announced the new plan for rural Americans&#39; healthcare:<br/><br/>&#34;There&#39;s no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars&#34;<br/><br/>Yes, they are cutting your Medicaid and making you use a chatbot.<br/><br/>Every low-information Trump voter should see this video. More details here: <a href="https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/report-dr-oz-suggests-ai-avatars-can-replace-frontline-physicians-in-first-cms-town-hall">https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/report-dr-oz-suggests-ai-avatars-can-replace-frontline-physicians-in-first-cms-town-hall</a><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/003/917/006/409/789/original/0787ce6637832b40.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-02-03T00:43:59Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0p829wuctdrm747qjn4vtq2ausvg26ey5yx3wdrkzdscj9y7k2sczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8arge0 With a compliant Supreme Court in hand, the religious right announced that it&#39;s officially trying to repeal marriage equality <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/christian-right-groups-launch-new">https://plus.flux.community/p/christian-right-groups-launch-new</a> 2026-02-01T23:08:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstvlp4t3cgjctkfknmn5jshp2yj7tls9pum4388jy3z6445drrecgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyuwe8mu The far right&#39;s smartest people are deeply ignorant. This is why their policy ideas always end in disaster or corruption.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s Curtis Yarvin showing he knows nothing about the history of civil disobedience.<br/><br/>Henry David Thoreau invented the term in 1849, to describe practices that had existed long before that, such as in the work of Augustine who declared that unjust laws were not laws at all.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/997/412/107/878/779/original/7ff03a3a45185c07.png"> <br/> 2026-02-01T21:07:48Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstpd6h3z32nceafy03yyzecc6t46zmz0rvglh28gz72smk966r3nqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyrzfr6f Catherine O&#39;Hara apotheosized the sesquipedalian. A hilarious actress with incredible range and grace. <br/><br/>RIP!<br/><br/>h/t to Merriam-Webster<br/><br/>#CatherineOhara<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/986/143/529/924/969/original/81b22e7a5fab0649.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-01-30T21:22:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0y9gcdv59j7592wfnywpvcaka3msyzra7u279txh9x8urgjnfjeczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyf7e9z8 The public pressure on the Trump regime is working. Here he is trying to say he&#39;s working with Tim Walz <br/><br/>They must have private polling that is absolutely horrible.<br/><br/>The people of Minnesota are doing this. Thank you for your persistence and courage!<br/><br/>Minneapolis is becoming Trump&#39;s Kent State.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/963/091/308/531/674/original/1be56e9512d8e801.png"> <br/> 2026-01-26T19:40:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs84dxznvw5c2s7exr3tazjlw5lare8q9x62s3xt0tfvad0ey74thczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy5tkr8g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgcn7cjzje2t4fmcnjh9tr0cr7u90dw6y7pfrkzfk3zcdz5fyyn9sxzgayt'>nevent1q…gayt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think they largely originated as space-fillers for print. That&#39;s what the places I used them in did it for.<br/><br/>In the digital age, they are obsolete and should be stopped. 2026-01-22T22:10:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9jjsxd2dxj8knsrwxps5w8004yrhdf6h45lv0cp0ay52n2wf3p2szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyavenkz An esoteric and likely unpopular opinion of mine: Pull quotes are terrible things.<br/><br/>Articles should be written, structured, and designed such that you don&#39;t need them. I find that they improperly preview arguments and also are confusing to people using speech-to-text readers. 2026-01-22T21:33:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs958cxusysx6nwge9sh30jewfl6sz52e4quraldcn4y8ceyv4h68qzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy84uxh3 Traditional secular materialism is incomplete and it&#39;s become too weak to defeat irrational religious fundamentalism.<br/><br/>Humanity needs better explanations of how a material world can give rise to phenomenal experience. I&#39;m working on a brand-new philosophy that does this. We need answers, not magic.<br/><br/>Paid subscribers are getting first access <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception">https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception</a><br/><br/>#philosophy 2026-01-22T17:57:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxk4s05pj05k9auehsa8q3hs28e727qh0yvkucp62p98t446m0knszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy0whyeu Exactly right:<br/><br/>&#34;Philosophy is the most productive force ever discovered by human beings ... It is philosophers who created systematic ethics, interconnected principles defensible by reason, instead of mere lists of rules handed out by the gods.&#34; <a href="https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/why-philosophy-matters-b35">https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/why-philosophy-matters-b35</a><br/><br/>#philosophy 2026-01-22T00:16:18Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2tvsft7nn7302tcjmmy6ed5zqtdnxudp0tey4wwxarljzzqw2d3szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8h2stq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9n2c3nd2l3zesuvnnq4grdl996e6cgth63wwaqzrp47dwpfefmxchpaqja'>nevent1q…aqja</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>People are sometimes surprised that Trump and other reactionary politicians don&#39;t have consistent policies. <br/><br/>They shouldn&#39;t be. Reactionaries hate abstract systems and coherence. They don&#39;t understand NATO, USAID, public broadcasting, literature, or science. So these things must be destroyed.<br/><br/>Government as the ultimate mutual aid, cooperation, consent, and sexual autonomy are concepts that don&#39;t make sense in a worldview where only the strong survive. 2026-01-18T21:20:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9n2c3nd2l3zesuvnnq4grdl996e6cgth63wwaqzrp47dwpfefmxczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy9j59yu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg37fj445da3sgptzdgevh39w949999e2qjvx8euc38mflt9aywfgay6905'>nevent1q…6905</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>These institutions and the global order they created were very far from perfect, but they were much better than what existed before.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, their creators didn&#39;t realize that they needed to continue to advocate for institutions and to always reform them to help more. 2026-01-18T21:20:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg37fj445da3sgptzdgevh39w949999e2qjvx8euc38mflt9aywfgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyqhk40n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswyqz43cgsdwthulu4ffcm0v642df46s985t3wwvxxn2guk4l4r6gahm0rx'>nevent1q…m0rx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Liberalism originated as #philosophy that said all minds are equal, that no one has inherent superiority, and that anyone can be wrong. This is ultimately why right-wing people hate it so much.<br/><br/>But the problem of other minds also extends to institutions made by other minds.<br/><br/>During the Great Depression and after World War II, the United States and many other countries built governmental and international institutions to alleviate poverty and resolve disputes. 2026-01-18T21:20:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswyqz43cgsdwthulu4ffcm0v642df46s985t3wwvxxn2guk4l4r6gzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyfmuwty In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsftnqy6y77kj73g7uq767a7jdhse84ayv5nhr6pqss2slz2c8vnyqaa64kn'>nevent1q…64kn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Besides piling up all kinds of newfangled things, expansions in knowledge also can liberate people from social prejudices.<br/><br/>For centuries, women and other ethnic groups were not fully human. Same-sex attraction &amp; trans people weren&#39;t real.<br/><br/>These bigotries are the product of what&#39;s often called the &#34;problem of other minds.&#34;<br/><br/>Because cognition is inherently private, &amp; language is an only a very partial extrusion of thought, we can&#39;t know for sure that other minds are real. <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/renee-good-and-the-problem-of-other">https://plus.flux.community/p/renee-good-and-the-problem-of-other</a> 2026-01-18T21:18:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsftnqy6y77kj73g7uq767a7jdhse84ayv5nhr6pqss2slz2c8vnyqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy5w6kep In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrmqfy0e2egcszme5euxwx6vaqdv787seyjmhwvptg0ulq2yrt0eclrxdqj'>nevent1q…xdqj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Cumulative advances in knowledge are threatening to people who only want to use somatic reasoning and who respond to all new things memetically. They want to imitate authorities rather than have humility and accept extrinsic realities through abstraction.<br/><br/>This is the conservative epistemology. And it&#39;s inherently pre-political. There are many conservatives who are not Republicans or Tories, etc. <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump">https://plus.flux.community/p/the-science-behind-why-donald-trump</a> 2026-01-18T21:16:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrmqfy0e2egcszme5euxwx6vaqdv787seyjmhwvptg0ulq2yrt0eczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyfn70nc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswydlsumxys8kjlf6wzapcym23awhpsl4h00u3srfg3ezcpwk6sqs8yxj26'>nevent1q…xj26</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This extrinsic epistemic approach has made modern humans able to advance through science in ways that would appear godlike to any ancient person.<br/><br/>But this new way of thinking is knowing through negation. And it&#39;s not how humans did things for the entire history of our species. It&#39;s &#34;unnatural.&#34;<br/><br/><a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/robert-kennedys-bizarre-obsession">https://plus.flux.community/p/robert-kennedys-bizarre-obsession</a> 2026-01-18T21:14:54Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswydlsumxys8kjlf6wzapcym23awhpsl4h00u3srfg3ezcpwk6sqszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjycxzyjq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9g04wnqqw7d5f4uj3ssuhaxl3e9cfhrqyqpv0w4lrn472ecyledcfh0lrv'>nevent1q…0lrv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The paradox of modernity is that each advance in knowledge also creates ignorance, in two major ways.<br/><br/>The first is that knowing more things also increases the number of known unknowns. Our models of reality are not reality itself. Scientific laws are descriptions of physical obligation, rather than the obligations themselves.<br/><br/>When we describe a thing via a model, the model itself becomes a source of doubt, because no model can explain obligations perfectly. 2026-01-18T21:14:10Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9g04wnqqw7d5f4uj3ssuhaxl3e9cfhrqyqpv0w4lrn472ecyledczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjynv2z9p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9ue23lya7s37tgqneuvp4rkzrqvr5qyzkmscc0l6m764j2tlf4nglecag8'>nevent1q…cag8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Memetic epistemology isn&#39;t inherently bad. It is in fact how we experience love, art, music, faith, and maintain coherence in adversity.<br/><br/>But the self-focused, somatic nature of memetic thinking means that it can be dangerous when applied to the world at large.<br/><br/>Society has become so large and so complex that one person can no longer have total mastery of even two fields of knowledge. 2026-01-18T21:12:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9ue23lya7s37tgqneuvp4rkzrqvr5qyzkmscc0l6m764j2tlf4ngzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjymraxx4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxgx9ukn56zujj6klye2u8a5za68767mxr5znzpdgx08wssn0nmuqugazaz'>nevent1q…azaz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This fear actually proceeds from an even deeper impulse, the belief that quick judgment thinking (what I call memetic epistemology) is superior to extrinsic thinking.<br/><br/>They trust their instincts more than any other person, regardless of their expertise.<br/><br/>Conservatives and reactionaries believe that their views are true because 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 believe them. Evidence isn&#39;t needed for &#34;common sense.&#34;<br/><br/>This viewpoint is the fundamental unifier of everyone on the right, from atheist ancaps to Christofascists. 2026-01-18T21:11:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxgx9ukn56zujj6klye2u8a5za68767mxr5znzpdgx08wssn0nmuqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyag3lpd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsff5dpa58q3p0h6k9ts20nl90fmk79ktce0hff3ar4cnnav7qwefcjvgd5s'>nevent1q…gd5s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Due to personal, family, and cultural histories, some people are inherently terrified of most things.<br/><br/>The fear of the world usually manifests as fear and hatred of new things. They rarely admit to this fear (especially the men), but they show it in their actions of carrying a gun everywhere or thinking that if they don&#39;t cheat others first, they will be cheated. 2026-01-18T21:09:30Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsff5dpa58q3p0h6k9ts20nl90fmk79ktce0hff3ar4cnnav7qwefczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyw98l3f 🧵 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I&#39;m often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions.<br/><br/>There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world... 2026-01-18T21:08:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx9mhh6xg6p2j2eyjmtz6kw5atzqcq70g8v2j5jxycadfv2vsc2qczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjylr9g9t Thousands of people protested today in Nuuk, Greenland against Trump&#39;s threats to take over their country.<br/><br/>Just over 55,000 people live in Greenland, which means that this was about 1/4th of the country&#39;s population.<br/><br/>Details: <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/thousands-march-greenland-support-arctic-island-face-us-president-trumps-threats-take/18422426/">https://abc7ny.com/post/thousands-march-greenland-support-arctic-island-face-us-president-trumps-threats-take/18422426/</a><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/912/591/369/355/701/original/ab28563f7c0f6468.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-01-17T21:42:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv767rxd4ez4p3528fhr6xk8pwzd3rde4p6zxav0l7qlm0dmw6zjqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyuh45j2 Is marketing to right-wing incels really this easy?<br/><br/>I guess we&#39;ll see.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/867/546/269/329/198/original/63700ae6e057c5f2.png"> <br/> 2026-01-09T22:44:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswavaf3hcmncnn8ga9ne3apqmejud368k0vfwn2zzrvwa3mt6csgczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy86nn8q Texas A&amp;M banned a #philosophy professor from teaching Plato in his ethics class<br/><br/>The Handmaid&#39;s Tale is not an exaggeration. The Christian right wants the world that it depicts.<br/><br/>Much more info: <a href="https://archive.is/LiA44">https://archive.is/LiA44</a> 2026-01-07T23:36:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr4pqgqtujzxlcdzeg9dcxqx7lj2w49e2x9hnx0yh8q3fah4qs62czypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy2x93s2 Texas A&amp;M University just ordered a #philosophy professor to remove a #Plato reading from his course because it supposedly promoted &#34;gender ideology.&#34;<br/><br/>The guy who started the first known Western university is apparently a woke postmodernist to Republican censors. <br/><br/>The supposedly evil reading was excerpts from Plato&#39;s Symposium, a book that has been taught in universities for thousands of years without incident--until now.<br/><br/>Please share this.<br/><br/>Archive link to news story: <a href="https://archive.is/ullmV">https://archive.is/ullmV</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/855/776/989/278/228/original/ea030aa24aca72bc.png"> <br/> 2026-01-07T13:15:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0hdct3skpa89ese49gpg4g6gtv7hh2w9scnrq4fwfuux65ydqrwczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy2grshf The idea of building a modern-day &#34;red-brown coalition&#34; isn&#39;t just morally reprehensible, it is completely uninformed by history and political philosophy.<br/><br/>The project of fascism is to impose violent feudalism. The fact that it occasionally looks anti-capitalistic is a coincidence.<br/><br/>Anyone saying otherwise is lying or totally misinformed. Great piece showing the history and context: <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fascists-always-come-for-the-socialists-first">https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fascists-always-come-for-the-socialists-first</a> 2026-01-05T02:21:26Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9s7xhuq9qndka4xmephxmyrnga0te66dmk57x93yf6py96r6vfdqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyvm95nj This is probably the most definitive image of Trump. Greasy, pompous, classless, and pretending to advocate peace.<br/><br/>He&#39;s now set the precedent that any country can abduct and jail him for his numerous crimes against humanity.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/833/211/662/842/597/original/cf0462c2aeae851c.png"> <br/> 2026-01-03T21:12:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs90wwm40550m438p4dmfn33peg5gwac7d6tkcwunanunzq5et970qzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy45m7d2 Mark Warner with a great statement on #Venezuela and Trump&#39;s violation of the rule of law.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/832/904/328/653/803/original/b21f5fa71bc6be21.png"> <br/> 2026-01-03T19:52:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstzufvawpka2fdksgnxlkmnx4s9rea0p9amq6sa6xq8u50gc2ku7czypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy4nus5p Reactionary extremists like Vought/Vance/Trump hate #science, democracy, and accountability so much that they struggle greatly with facts and coherence. <br/><br/>That&#39;s why empty people like Lawrence Krauss are so valuable to the reactionary enterprise.<br/><br/>Normal people don&#39;t support destroying science and the academy. But with a big enough web of lies, some will.<br/><br/>Great piece here: <a href="https://www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-science-real-and-otherwise/">https://www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-science-real-and-otherwise/</a><br/><br/>#atheism 2026-01-03T02:45:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf74fhnj0x2evs8kfar2nrv8ujkw3nd5mdexka0ntzzq3a3cyvmhqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjywehg9y Minds are often thought of as software that is instantiated within the hardware of bodies, but this is actually a bad analogy.<br/><br/>It&#39;s more accurate to think of minds as what bodies are doing with the information they have stored. So minds are execution states, beliefs and memories are software, and the body is hardware.<br/><br/>This often sounds confusing, but here is a video that perfectly illustrates the analogy via #Pokemon Let&#39;s Go: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GngchcORtNk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GngchcORtNk</a><br/><br/>#philosophy 2025-12-24T21:39:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqzy94v5s8p3vq97rv6zd622xzyyk02lvv42at7wghenzumv2uh7gzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyacm8n2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszz0kjwtfxqaa5jm963feeavdpvwvr6zl4z3qlp7sx26m6p6lv6wqfglxq9'>nevent1q…lxq9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This trend is present on the irreligious side as well. <br/><br/>Republican adults who were raised outside religion seem *much* more likely to have joined one later compared to Democrats.<br/><br/>80% of Democrats who were &#34;nones&#34; as kids stayed that. Far fewer, 64%, of Republicans did.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/766/094/023/756/205/original/abac41449f716d05.png"> <br/> 2025-12-23T00:40:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszz0kjwtfxqaa5jm963feeavdpvwvr6zl4z3qlp7sx26m6p6lv6wqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjypmzerz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv6urn50htg0haa97fhwzefcc3cqt97xsc4xs6kmx5f33c3mgtaucshxxw4'>nevent1q…xxw4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are extremely interesting crosstabs on religious switching among political partisans that support the idea that personal cognitive style undergirds religious and political preferences.<br/><br/>33% of Ds who were raised in a faith tradition say they are &#34;nones&#34; now. Just 14% of Rs by contrast.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/766/088/685/872/071/original/29693ec00acff69b.png"> <br/> 2025-12-23T00:39:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv6urn50htg0haa97fhwzefcc3cqt97xsc4xs6kmx5f33c3mgtauczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyzmx0tg 🧵 The Pew Research Center has some fascinating details on religious switching. Only 56% of American adults are in the system they were raised in.<br/><br/>Very important info on switching from various groups, too.<br/><br/>Why do people say they leave? The biggest reason is that they stopped believing the claims. <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/12/15/why-do-some-americans-leave-their-religion-while-others-stay/">https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/12/15/why-do-some-americans-leave-their-religion-while-others-stay/</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/766/084/000/970/361/original/294983261d7cfdf9.png"> <br/> 2025-12-23T00:38:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx5t3g9w8nwpudtk9cy5pq6ufusn26rk38mued4q9t7u62xtche8szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjygat4jy The brainworms have gotten to Liam Neeson. He just narrated an antivax crockumentary.<br/><br/>Please share so everyone can avoid his schlock in the future: <a href="https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro">https://www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeson-narrates-anti-vax-pro</a> 2025-12-11T18:11:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfwmmzxcdrdall7zgxq40vum0n05xxu6s4f6vkfp3mkny6ftxkvzszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyuxcdmr Window shading is such a great feature. If you&#39;re stuck with an operating system or window manager that doesn&#39;t have it, you are missing out. It&#39;s so nice to be able to minimize a window in place temporarily and then come back to it when ready.<br/><br/>Really hoping that KWin gets it set up on Wayland soon. It&#39;s long overdue and is the only reason I&#39;m still on kwin_x11.<br/><br/>#linux #freebsd #kde 2025-11-22T21:38:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswkx3lc4n93y936ceh0la7kf93sazxz72q5m5kdxfcn2elwr7047szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyc58ea9 Elon Musk&#39;s long-promised lobotomy of Grok has arrived. His chatbot seems to have been ordered to sing his praises in a way that any normal person would find obscene.<br/><br/>Grok seems to be required to output that Musk is a paragon of fitness, and one of the most intelligent people in human history. These posts are absolutely embarrassing for him.<br/><br/>Source thread: <a href="https://x.com/wrotator/status/1990935873018376499">https://x.com/wrotator/status/1990935873018376499</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/583/587/086/506/099/original/918f266c79eecaab.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/583/604/149/676/170/original/2761e81e7d458035.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/583/609/583/172/874/original/e522a9e3893112c7.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/583/620/189/088/533/original/d78180291ab84060.png"> <br/> 2025-11-20T19:16:09Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqd4kdffscvefy3yv4suf2w3hkg873fn7ue6ykg7sqysf3gyn6slgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyz3rzsd The Mastodon iPhone app promotes bad accessibility with its buggy interface. You can&#39;t post alt text with multiple lines. And when you attach an image, it won&#39;t let you scroll down to tap into the alt text field. And you can&#39;t hide the keyboard to make room.<br/><br/>I&#39;m not sure to whom this should be directed, but it would be great if these issues could be resolved. 2025-11-20T17:00:27Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgz06w9q2s7q58hn80dzscd4ucsm04cflca6tskan0pms5j3rdvjczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyaumx2z The Epstein case is a really important illustration of why erotic professionals deserve full legal rights and workplace protections.<br/><br/>Epstein and his clients were able to victimize so many people because the victims risked imprisonment if they told police about his crimes. 2025-11-18T00:45:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstr2nt239ur4r5d70vweemn9uahedy3rkrwfd643zq4emnxuyr8rqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyxxptm4 What numbers do you see in this optical illusion puzzle? <br/><br/>This is one of the funner ones that I&#39;ve ever seen.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/526/414/455/928/889/original/32a75df037abbd49.png"> <br/> 2025-11-10T16:47:19Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw5f6dysa69glwp3466ugxm6lnssm0uzcx33hnegr7vv499jjmqeczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyctuc83 Wow: Peter Thiel in a private 2020 email argued that capitalism has failed young Americans, and so this is why they have become socialist.<br/><br/>This was almost literally Zohran Mamdani&#39;s campaign message. <br/><br/>The email was posted to Xitter by his VC friend Chamath Palihapitiya.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/498/680/477/981/509/original/ee4329e50ace5746.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/498/686/011/380/262/original/f33fea52141cd5b6.png"> <br/> 2025-11-05T19:14:12Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv9x4grjtlzz62mxlph067q4q72ju02jnhcjgfvnn5p3t6uv7fsqczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy6jprrc Where do I go to pitch my establishment media op-ed urging Republicans to pivot to the middle if they want to win? 2025-11-05T05:07:28Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2xpthc9vhqugu3fvqarrp5fleyswrz8ql0gfx5ay4g3ayt776hxczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy29hu85 The Asininity of Totalitarianism:<br/><br/>A sandwich can be thrown at &#34;point blank range.&#34; Yes, Trump toady Jeanine Pirro ordered that sentence to be filed in a brief to prosecute the sandwich guy. <br/><br/>It&#39;s an ironic coincidence that today is National Sandwich Day<br/><br/><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/jury-selection-begins-case-dcs-sandwich-guy-rcna241563">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/jury-selection-begins-case-dcs-sandwich-guy-rcna241563</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/489/278/561/368/324/original/0dd5305e385f4ab5.png"> <br/> 2025-11-04T03:25:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw35y6vzsyh0c0p6eq5hlenrsm0vmz63aenx7pz6fju28vh346k4szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyen0zlv RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115444035226415202">https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115444035226415202</a><br/><br/>The American Bar Association. The #1 organization for lawyers cannot get an attorney.<br/><br/>This is how cowardly corporations are—and how manifestly not left-wing they are.<br/><br/>There are some very stupid people who claim to believe that corporations with some token diversity programs are leftist. Um, no.<br/>nostr:note1yxakmrc3ux22nw6h25tzqe7u73cznm4aqwehcr5xr2fdu7lzwfzs9srzur<br/> 2025-10-27T04:19:29Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg8c6ugpvshac8jra9l9arzvxv0aqzl4ydt4e40frgtake5cndy0gzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyxxatld In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspzr85l7dpe3rnctu5xpw7e4y8cj4r5ajya0hu4c4gwefh9ramv4c09qumz'>nevent1q…qumz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This all goes back to Immanuel Kant and how his ontology is contradicted by his epistemology.<br/><br/>Most of science listened to David Hume that objectivity was impossible. Too much of liberalism listened to Kant that it was.<br/><br/>New Atheism and right-wing libertarianism are both undead sciences that have made common cause with the older undead science of traditionalist religion. 2025-10-26T03:07:25Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq9yex24rk7c0a99td79vhnhkael03tsf59ldzkppjv68rfn2g3uszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjymq75v3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstquy98zm8zple634rhuwwww8y8t979ztymcdwq5thkgfavjrphmcwy3de2'>nevent1q…3de2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That perspective you highlight, which is indeed the New Atheist viewpoint, is anti-scientific.<br/><br/>All the best philosophers of science share the idea that there is no objectivity, only ideas which are presently unfalsified. <br/><br/>We can only know through negation.<br/><br/>Nothing about the external world can ever be &#34;true.&#34; It can only be false, possibly false, and not known to be false. 2025-10-26T02:43:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2wz80ykq5z7ygggdfhep7zet54ljdxhgqdtj2vkchz2r3v32hpjszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy3whzs2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9vvkm0np2usq7sydwfk7c9e5quxe2c9khgk9pjyx3vefezu4tgssn0knqq'>nevent1q…knqq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Reactionary intellectualism is completely impoverished. The atheists like Curtis Yarvin are puerile, and the theists are still serving up CS Lewis&#39;s gruel.<br/><br/>NYT columnist Ross Douthat wrote a book trying to convince people to believe in religion, but it appears to be nothing more than a distended version of Pascal&#39;s wager, an argument debunked centuries ago. <a href="https://archive.ph/bkp8c">https://archive.ph/bkp8c</a> 2025-10-26T01:01:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9vvkm0np2usq7sydwfk7c9e5quxe2c9khgk9pjyx3vefezu4tgsszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjytusfq6 🧵 Having been one for 27 years, I can tell you that far-right people almost uniformly have a deep inferiority complex towards mainstream society.<br/><br/>They know that their beliefs are either unprovable or disproven. But they want to believe anyway. Thus, they seek to destroy objective knowledge.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/435/657/756/287/934/original/86e51a78e39ddfef.png"> <br/> 2025-10-25T16:07:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2udtgx9x3f6krd7akllcwfjfgylzq0kyyqhc67zeqsks5mg75xuqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy0epfya I think I&#39;m going to stop boosting all Bluesky bridged accounts.<br/><br/>The authors want the audience of the fediverse but don&#39;t want to engage. That seems disrespectful to fedi posters.<br/><br/>I get that we all have only so much time. Still, a Bluesky-bridged account is a zombie account in my opinion. Why boost it? 2025-10-22T19:35:05Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrft3mq5keveeq07ysde207gutk7zqs9ctxuuyum9dprueuwzpntszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8p3lcr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd7flr63gttvf6jld77egeuet7w6sa4rs9efk4a0cgckck06vzjfq26lz93'>nevent1q…lz93</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ICYMI, Vivek Ramaswamy had an event marred by Christian supremacist bigotry earlier this month.<br/><br/>“Jesus Christ is God, and there is no other God,” one student said. “How can you represent the constituents of Ohio who are 64 percent Christian if you are not a part of that faith?”<br/><br/><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/surprise-vivek-ramaswamy-turning-point-211106566.html">https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/surprise-vivek-ramaswamy-turning-point-211106566.html</a> 2025-10-21T06:57:20Z