friendship is the microstructure of solidarity. AI companionship is an opiate of the masses.

kind of the Model T of blackmail, devalues earlier, more bespoke, versions of the product.

if we think of Jeffrey Epstein as a kompromat op, isn't AI erotica served by centralized platforms likely to become Jeffrey Epstein blitzscaled? i don't mean to draw a moral equivalence. no children are harmed indulging a weird fetish with Mistress GPT. but it'll become a blackmail treasure trove.

if you don’t maintain your assets, they become liabilities.

that human nature changes so much with the times suggests it isn’t really nature.

i kind of prefer doing business with firms that haven’t bribed the President.

i can’t, motion sickness.

you know what, i am really effing tired of displays of pure power. whether by humans, nature, or in this case their collaboration.

Well, this was my weekend! It's long bothered me that stuff I wrote on bluesky I don't really have access to except on bluesky. The "repo.car" you can download is pretty inscrutable! So I made a thing to turn all your Blueskying into a pretty, self-contained static site, with quotes & images, e.g…

[tech notebook] Turn your Bluesky archive into a readable, hostable static site with fossilphant https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/10/28/turn-your-bluesky-archive-into-a-readable-hostable-static-site-with-fossilphant/index.html

Aside from the fact that it's, well, murder, one of the United States' great achievements during the Pax Americana era was protecting and enforcing all the world's ability to navigate freely in international waters. One of many global public goods the US used to provide, but is now undermining.

Not all LLM-assisted production is bullshit. It's possible to use them as tools for human-supervised creation. But by default, absent effortful supervision + revision, LLM output is bullshit. Passing that off as communication, wasting human time with it, is a way of lying and stealing all at once.

Centrism (which is defined in practice as the consensus that held among ruling elites from about 1984 to 2016) has never been tried.

it’s better to be the kind of person who treats anything that presents as human or mind kindly than to be the kind of person parsing what or who is deserving of it.

“centrism” (really the policy preferences of a particular group of people, not the “center” of anything) can only be failed. it can never fail.

you have to admit it’s at least moderately extreme.

is extremism in defense of moderation a vice?

what can we do for Jamaica? ht @bananapantz.bsky.social