Roko’s Modern Basilisk

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I feel like I should be doing something other than Netflix on this Mac mini m4.. kinda like I've got a combine in my garage during harvest season...

oh wow who'd a thunk it would be product liability lawsuits that got 'em in the end huh?

Removing my fake dead toddler's account from my Apple Family plan is the most painful thing I've ever done and I've given birth.

Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today. The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.

Tom Holland Says The Odyssey Was His ‘Last Chance to Play a Human,' before he turns back into a little wooden doll forever (Source: tinyurl.com/8xhkyyc6)

I mean, OK? 'terrorism prevention' funding was probably just going to local cops for their MRAPs or whatever

absolutely not a sign that private equity is a bubble built on a pyramid scheme!

The modern GOP: A billionaire-funded grift that uses the church as a megaphone to convince the working class that social progress is an existential threat.

Happy Birthday George “America” Washington 🦅🇺🇸 youtu.be/qv6OOuPI5c0

Happy #PrideMonth! Enjoy a Tesla getting smashed by a light rail train with a pride flag.

Seems bad

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

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This brings me to my modest proposal. Let me just say it like this: No to the death penalty as a possibility for humans; yes to the death penalty as a possibility for corporations and billionaires. Let's introduce a cost of doing business that exceeds the gain to be realized.

Just saw my big fat greek wedding 3 and was about to write something about the #nonbinary character Victory! but MG Scott put it really really well www.incluvie.com/articles/my-...

#GayAwayThePray.

(huge congratulations to Kat and her co-defendants for crushing these bogus, actually-illegal-in-and-of-themselves charges)

lol @bencollins.bsky.social big mad about fruit

Tired: Correlation is not causation. Wired: Correlation is not cognition.

...more like *sigh*OP

That I'm getting my US government news from Menswear Guy is perhaps the *least* surprising thing in 2026.

if there is a clinical psychologist at #rsac #rsac2026 i really need you to DM me

"We are clean on opsec" Sent from my Verizon Mobile device

man there is some #psyop shit afoot

more or less my thinking on AI #chatbots and #psychosis like @swiftonsecurity.com

No one ever went to war over solar energy.

Retvrn

LIFE IS WORTH LIVING

Solar panels aren’t being held up in the Strait of Hormuz. A point worth making

"Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society." -Joni Askola

#BookSky and #BlueSky family interested “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance” (released yesterday), here is a free excerpt from the book. @spectrum.ieee.org spectrum.ieee.org/digital-surv...

DLSS 5 On

The village elder watched the crowd gather to celebrate Burning Day, and the fires that had freed humanity from the misery monster. “First we #partake in some wine,” he said, “and then we burn the monster again!” It was only an effigy, but some people swore they could hear the AI scream. #vss365

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Qihoo 360, one of the biggest cybersecurity companies from China, accidentally shipped a highly sensitive wildcard SSL private certificate inside the public installer for its 360 Security Claw AI assistant www.neowin.net/amp/chinas-b...

now seems like a really good time to buy an electric vehicle 🔋

goddamn, now *that's* a burn

Oil prices are going to be lit 🔥 today huh

In one generation they hope to eliminate the general ability to code and sell coding back to you as a service in perpetuity

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On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

I really like bread

No! Not that part!

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Please repost if you love Tim Walz and Jacob Frey -- and if you despise the the Mango Mussolini!

Once again, a single cartoon tells more truth that the entire US Congress. Thanks to Rick McKee for making our current situation easy to understand.