CypressMoss

atmospheric scientist by trade, actually studying whatever the hell is going on

they/him

May make this the new home of my writing, stay tuned. Previous work at: https://southcypressmoss.substack.com/ In the meantime listen to this, it's goated

so what happens when this doesn't work
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social
In recent meetings, including a Monday discussion, Trump opted to continue squeezing Iran’s economy and oil exports by preventing shipping to and from its ports. He assessed that his other options—resume bombing or walk away from the conflict—carried more risk than maintaining the blockade.-WSJ
my take remains the same: I do not think that AI is doomed but OpenAI specifically might be
The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com
Exclusive: OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and revenue, stumbles that have raised concern among some company leaders about whether it will be able to support its spending on data centers.
this cynicism is part of an upward spiraling process of radicalization. the next "on" phase will be worse and will probably be primarily antisemetic
Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social
I love median voters. I love how after the disaster of Trump 2 so far, the lesson these two voters came away with was "Boy you really can't trust Republicans or Democrats! I'm smart!"
god these blueanon people type so much like my mother
Rosencreutz (alleged youtuber) @rosencreutz.bsky.social
Hey remember when I said that petty theft didn't tear the social fabric nearly as much as what the people in power do? Well, my post about how quickly blueanon brains have leapt into conspiracy mode and willfully ignored reality has quite a lot of comments about a zero-trust environment, so...
PDS Tornado Warning for Joplin, jfc
This is something that ANDOR really reshaped in how I see Star Wars; it takes a central contradiction of the Universe, that the Empire isn't old enough to exist as the primordial force it's presented to us as, and turns it into a strength by recontextualizing it as an *ongoing* totalitarian project.
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social
My thought process for how the Galactic Empire works is basically Stalinist developmentalism with totalitarian ambitions being built in the Holy Roman Empire, that coincidentally also happens to be run by a cabal of Satanists, where the Five Year Plans end up resulting in the Thirty Years War.
i'm very susceptible to ragebait videos. i usally try to keep my algo so low-like and insane it wraps back around to being real, but when ragebait breaks through it quickly puts me in a dark place. i hate it.
The fact that nobody will remember this shooting by Tuesday--a charitable account of our collective memory span--doesn't own Trump. It's Trumpism's culture of perpetual violence as meaningless spectacle eating our minds.
went to a bar with my friends tn, they learned of the news via the bartender, every single one of them immediately agreed it was staged
qanon style brainworns being redirected at trump is very ominous for the future of this country. You cannot control this kind of mass delusion. On the other hand, it's extremely funny so i guess let er rip folks
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expect a wave of ai meme slop to precede the memory holing
Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social
The funniest thing about "the shooting was STAGED" theories, is that even it if was (and it wasn't), this entire thing will be memory-holed within 10 days.
the word mute function is what keeps me on this site
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if you go out to hunt an animal and it kills you i think that's fair play
ik they're doing this because they think it's less humane but it's actually the exact opposite
AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social
Trump administration says it will reinstate firing squads for federal executions.
bedsoremaxxing
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
All the warnings about a sedentary lifestyle don't apply to me because I'm lying down most of the time and that's different. There isn't even science about that
the internet is the result of an accretion of all borders onto the surface of the technical apparatus, in the process becoming gravitationally aligned. it is composed entirely of these borders, now functionally equivalent, merged into a sort of hyperborder between the technical space and the void.
this photo is so iconic
Weather History @weatherhistory.bsky.social
April 23, 1989:

Marilee Thomas of Beaver City, Nebraska, took this picture of her daughter in front of a weak tornado in Furnas County. The dusty twister produced minor damage to farms, and the "tornado girl" photo went on to win second place in a national contest.
was mr beast's mother at abu ghraib, and other questions the human mind was not meant to contemplate
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