Barrington Steele

Barrington Steele

@barringtonsteele.bsky.social

Plantmonger, Trotskyist, flaneur. Based in the US national capital region 😳

1.4K followers740 following883 posts

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Haus of Decline
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Good job Brazilians. Brazil is not just mentioned. It has suddenly become the most important country in the world.

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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

oh she's CRAZY crazy

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

Barrington Steele
@barringtonsteele.bsky.social

These mfers using the word "quietly" in the headline on a story about LLM prose 💀

WIRED@wired.com

More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

Barrington Steele
@barringtonsteele.bsky.social

Read the article. Nvm. You do not have to hand it to Yud.

Barrington Steele@barringtonsteele.bsky.social

Let him cook. I would actually prefer a possibly survivable nuclear exchange to the certain death from grey goo/paperclipping. Like, i like laughing at these guys as much as anyone, but ai-powered nanowarfare does give me the heebie-jeebies.

Barrington Steele
@barringtonsteele.bsky.social

Honestly? Work.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

As @segyges.bsky.social notes, here’s famed rationalist and AI doomer Eliezer Yudkowsky - who’s advising @sanders.senate.gov on AI and who is in a recent Netflix documentary - claiming that AI extinction risk is SO bad that it’s worth risking nuclear war. Which is *nuts*. time.com/6266923/ai-e...

Barrington Steele
@barringtonsteele.bsky.social

I read the article, i changed my mind, you do not under any circumstance need to hand it to Eliezer Yudkowsky. I was already worried about grey goo anyway, before he rebranded it as "paperclipping".

Barrington Steele
@barringtonsteele.bsky.social

The median Bluesky user seems to be in complete denial of any need to revise wokeness. I'm incredibly proud of my comrades who rose up for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. But many of us were hamstrung by certain Woke 1.0 pieties and we lost the fight for police reform.

Barrington Steele
@barringtonsteele.bsky.social

The concept of "intersectional" grifters acting in good faith

trvl.bsky.social@trvl.bsky.social

Nah. One single lesbian bar enforcing or not enforcing masking is a NON-ISSUE. A lot of these butthurt centrists falsely equivocate the good faith actions of non-powerful people with the bad faith actions of corrupt right-wing politicians and their staffers, and they're completely petty for it.

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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social

Literacy crisis: everyone is mad at Ed Sheeran, but if you actually read his statement he specifically said he’s not complicit

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Molly Knight
@mollyknight.bsky.social

Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.

Una Mullally@unamullally.bsky.social

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra.bsky.social

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

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David Farrier
@davidfarrier.com

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

webworm.coEverlee Has DisappearedEverlee Wihongi was transferred by ICE to the notorious "Camp East Montana" at Fort Bliss, Texas. Then she disappeared.