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toomanyfembots.bsky.social
Thoughts on AI & the “future” of war, international law, scifi & fantasy lit | Canadian political scientist working on AI in SF | Views are mine unless you’re mad at me.
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Excellent and important reporting from @kimzetter.bsky.social on the activities of DOGE operatives. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

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💯 And I’m broadly concerned that communities are abandoning thoughts of building “the future” to a slice of Silicon Valley because it’s automatically coded as out-of-touch.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

it's so frustrating how thoroughly subverted this entire community was. "never play defense," they pointed out, then they stopped *attacking* conservatives to avoid giving them attention because they thought that was playing defense.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Brian Krebs confirmed what I suspected. Like most people who worked for Path Network, Edward Coristine came from the cybercrime community, and was active as recently as May 2024 krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Old enough to remember when "it's not as though planes will fall out of the sky" was a figure of speech.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is the ideal robot body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a certain group of Silicon Valley influencers that have such intense dopamine dysregulation that nothing short of complete system destruction at the speed of online virality will satiate their nervous systems.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely bonkers. It took 2 weeks from an election that repudiated expert rule to “some experts get special privileges to usurp democracy if I like their machine learning use case.”

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Not sure I can forgive Doug Ford for making me agree with him. #ontariopolitics #onpol

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

'The Interview' w. Curtis Yarvin is intriguing for a bunch of reasons, but one thing that stood out is that the man appears addicted to reasoning through analogy. Each argument depends on a cognitive shortcut & the sentiment of the audience towards a symbol. He vibes; he doesn't argue.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

New op-ed on #autonomousweapons from Alexander Kmentt (director of the Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Department at the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs):

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I keep revisiting this essay by @karlschroeder.bsky.social, who argues that our ideas about the future (aka what tech focuses on today) are informed by 19th century science fiction, which can place arbitrary limits on our thinking about the world we want.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Airwars on the first 25 days of Gaza “By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented.”

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

This is ofc a possible motivation. Still, the language of invasion mobilizes supporters to do the “idea work” that’s necessary to normalize the policy. Distraction or not, it’s rewinding (already precarious) international norms/law around state sovereignty. That’s *doing* something.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Anyway, I won’t be making the “America’s hat” joke for a while.

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Online social status norms mean that people risk losing face if they don’t process threats made by ‘certain public figures’ through irony. Are you taking seriously the jokes about invading a sovereign nation? J’accuse with cringe.

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