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Gabe Eisenstein

@metetzky.bsky.social

retired from philosophy and computer science physics & comics fan liberal, compatibilist

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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

07.03.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1063    πŸ” 566    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 254

"40% of papers about subarachnoid haemorrhage in animals contained manipulated images."

We have to face up to the fact that in some fields, over half of published science might be fake.

01.11.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

01.03.2026 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2276    πŸ” 721    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 43

But when I kept switching away to CNN it was only GOP lickspittles praising the wisdom of Dear Leader. MSNOW was somewhat better.

28.02.2026 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Feynman Light Files Feynman Light Files is a physics storytelling channel built to make the universe feel simple, visual, and mind‑bending. We take famous β€œobvious” ideasβ€”light, time, atoms, gravity, electricityβ€”and rebu...

DO NOT WATCH! This is NOT FEYNMAN!

I got sucked into one of these for several minutes. It’s some guy spewing a lot of misleading half-truths, using AI to make it seem like Feynman. Even a black hole could not contain the contempt I feel for this, and the world in which this becomes the norm.

24.02.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bless Pope Leo For Humiliating JD Vance An annual tradition.

Bwahaha! Well done, Leo! πŸ˜‚

22.02.2026 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1085    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 6
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So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.

And this is what they called it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

21.02.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4568    πŸ” 1451    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 264

This article discusses the accelerating boom-bust cycle, but leaves out the convergence with the wider trend of enshittification. When AI replaces humans you can talk to on the phone (e.g. at the bank), it's not because anyone even pretends that things are better. They just do it because they can.

21.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much.

You mean to tell me that people aren’t as dumb as the techlordsβ€”and Iβ€”thought they were? That would be a stunning development in itself, because I’m used to people being even dumber than I thought (see Trump).

21.02.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m in love…

20.02.2026 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5668    πŸ” 1923    πŸ’¬ 182    πŸ“Œ 92
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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people β€”Β fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse β€”Β traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

17.02.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1188    πŸ” 613    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 130
A black and white photo of Swan.

A black and white photo of Swan.

Four covers by Swan, including the first appearances of Brainiac, Supergirl, and the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the first issue of Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane.

Four covers by Swan, including the first appearances of Brainiac, Supergirl, and the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the first issue of Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane.

Today is the birthday of my favorite Superman artist, Curt Swan (Feb. 17, 1920-June 17, 1996).

17.02.2026 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 207    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

I’ve never supported any Republican for the last 50 years. I always knew Trump is what they were aiming at.

17.02.2026 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't let them fool you 😑🀬🀬

16.02.2026 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My post said β€œβ€¦obvious devils like Bannon…” but the word β€œdevils” has been eliminated.

15.02.2026 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Easy to say now, but true: I never liked ANY* of these guysβ€”Dawkins, Pinker, Brooks…not to mention the obvious like Bannon, Dershowitz, Murray…and I always thought there was something creepy and wrong about The Edge.

*Except Chomsky, whom I used to cite as the ONLY one of my heroes still standing

15.02.2026 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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These triplets are, apparently, fighting each other for ratings.

10.02.2026 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 743    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 17
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Two days before Alex Pretti was executed by federal agents in Minneapolis, 7 Democrats voted with Republicans to hand ICE another $64.4 BILLION. One of them was Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Today, Turn Left is proud to endorse her opponent, Brent Hennrich for #WA03.

08.02.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Hate to say it but the French revolution didn’t turn out so good.

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They hate it being talked about because it undermines the Big Lie that the rise in inequality was due to the "free market." There is nothing free market about government-granted patent and copyright monopolies. But you aren't even allowed to say that in major media outlets.

22.01.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

Here's one way we can get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

21.01.2026 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 431    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 7

This graph makes me want to cry.

20.01.2026 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2

It’s sickly ironic that the first Jewish President turned out to be a Nazi.

19.01.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
Political cartoon; invading Greenland and blaming NATO worked for Putin.

Political cartoon; invading Greenland and blaming NATO worked for Putin.

19.01.2026 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 3

I'll drink to that

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What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.

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So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are

14.01.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

This should be the policy of every local law enforcement agency in America.

11.01.2026 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2