"there is a substantial group that appear to be using the prima facie neutrality of “civility” and “civics” to hide authoritarian motivations to repress social progress"
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/echoes-quad/2026/10/13/whats-wrong-civility
Fascism is fundamentally about tech. Always has been.
CSI: Baklava Division
A while back someone told me that I'm a really difficult guy to approach. I was never really sure that they were genuine. I think that what they really meant was "you're a really difficult guy to pitch to." So I guess I take that as a compliment.
And, no, I'm still not interested in being pitched to, but I am always interested in being approached/approachable.
There should be an equivalent for TIL based on things you unlearned. That's probably better for everyone in the grand scheme of things.
Part of the reason why I'm unemployed is the whole Right Livelihood thing. It's fucking hard to find ethical employment in the tech industry right now.
People say that revenge is sweet. I guess it's a many-Splenda'd thing.
When capitalism/the billionaire class/the oligarchy falls, it's going to happen for a reason that none of them will have foreseen. Why? Because these people fundamentally have no sense of imagination. They imagine threats, for sure, but that's because they live in a protective bubble and their threat landscape is pretty much indistinguishable from others in their class and a disaffected mob (there are two types of threat, in other words).
In real life, it's gonna be that dependency in Nebraska.
A couple of probably-related things I've been thinking about recently are how people can distinguish fake profiles from real ones and the problem of dealing with more long-term "infiltration" (as practised by security services or other actors).
On the first one, I think I'm good. No matter what you may think about my views or how I interact with people (I'm not always perfect), I think I've got a good enough "cover story" to convince people that I'm a real person, at least. I have a real, novel interest and it's unlikely that a script would generate it as an interest.
On the second, I would say that, if you follow me, I hope that it would be clear that I don't have any ulterior motive here. What you see is what you get.
Full disclosure, though, in a previous incarnation (social media wise, not reincarnation-based), I have pretended to be someone that I'm not. If you know me from both incarnations, I hope you realised that persona was based on an obvious conceit.
There's more on that topic, though. People do sometimes use "inauthentic" personas for various (usually bad) reasons. But there are other more subtle forms. I'm talking about accounts with huge follower counts. They're harder to detect as having some sort of agenda. And, actually, having a big seemingly-organic follower number can make them seem authentic.
So, I guess I think a few things about that sort of apparently-organic account:
Still, I'm not out to spread conspiracy theories or make anyone paranoid, so I'll just leave my musings at that.
What's the deal with polycules? Are they made up of ionic or covalent bonds? Are they easy?
Anyway, the EFF seems to be compromised in the same way that Barbara Steiner was.
Fed up with people calling you a redpilled AI apologist? Here's one weird trick you can use during your Voight-Kampff session!
So, Ed Sheeran's advisors are obviously crap and don't have any moral values besides being buzzards in his ear, but I'd really like to see an expose on how the Kraft pressure campaign managed to convince him that staying silent was the right thing to do. The whole "chain of command" thing. Because it's not just Ed Sheeran that's exposed by this Zionist pressure campaign.
"We think they're using the #Monsterdon hashtag to communicate..."
Anyway, the EFF are doing their double-ratchet thing. Only Forward! No way of backtracking now and admitting the error of their ways.
My essay on rogue AI has been republished by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — “Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did.” Grateful for the invitation! https://thebulletin.org/2026/09/rogue-ai-didnt-breach-hugging-face-human-decisions-did/
Huygen's Face (well, full body portrait, actually)
I would crawl 500 links