cloud somersault

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

never coveted a backpack more

The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

US Democratic congressional nominee Lander detained by Israeli authorities in West Bank reut.rs/4jzKkTB

On IG just now, @bradlander.bsky.social says he's been detained by the Israeli military. Israeli security forces have taken a NY congressional candidate on the eve of a US election.

“Last year, the Rev. Edward Nalwamba walked into an Aurora detention facility.” 😑

🧊✈️ GRANDMA IN CHAINS 😲⛓️ SEATTLE: Guards escort a frail, shackled woman up the stairs of a GlobalX jet (tail: N630VA) to be transported south to a concentration camp in Arizona 👀

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

Incredible use of the format

Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Anthropic: "We are straight-up huffing paint at this point." h/t @drjennings.bsky.social @merz.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

2/ Link: Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Meta is a fascist enterprise.

Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

it's wild. in a time where it seems like everyone is trying to be a public intellectual, no one seems to even come close to this one guy for thoughtfulness and moral clarity

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Vibecoded the map rubbersheeting tool I've wished I had for ages e-n-f.github.io/rubbersheet

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

I'm sure X is remarkably friendly if you aren't the target of racial slurs and harassment campaigns. Anyway, I wonder how many "niggers" I'll have to sift through if I start posting there again?

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.

please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming

perfect Eliezer Yudkowsky burn

Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.

I don’t want to be a dick. But having read a few things by this Yudkowsky guy and now seeing that he left school in middle school and didn’t go to high school or college I think I’m understanding the situation a lot better, or things at least seem to fit.

Someone just reminded me that Huang recently used *this* metaphor to describe AI www.ap.org/news-highlig...

I think something might be rotten in that green & pleasant land

Don't know what to say anymore

God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom

this thread is a tremendous public service

the thread as one page to make it more shareable for people who are not bluesky sickos skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsk...

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

After a closer look at the IG report, here are the clues I found indicating an "Alligator Alcatraz" cover-up. FWIW, I don't think the DHS OIG was in the conspiracy, I think they were in way over their heads. prospect.org/2026/09/17/a...

Jev: Fable-level model that doesn’t charge for output tokens because they’re too cheap to meter it’s not general though, it only makes decisions, doesn’t generate text, but input tokens are measured by the billion ($42/btok) typesafe.ai/blog/introdu...