Reposted by Aaron KimballKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15hA man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 14677121363
Reposted by Aaron KimballBoredwalk @boredwalk.com · 28/09/2026Fuck teaching girls how to square dance in PE, teach them how to punch a creep so hard he swallows his own teeth. 0286
Reposted by Aaron KimballBD the Toon Dog @bdtoonzone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For those planning to call Gavin Newsom about the Paramount merger, he's also considering gutting the state's Net Neutrality laws as well so go call him to protect the rules as well! 15162
Reposted by Aaron KimballPaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Utah's Potential Fossil Yield Classification Maps. Blues sections on state management map are Utah State Lands. This is our first filter in dealing with paleontological management issues (particularly mitigation) here in Utah. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social 1182
Reposted by Aaron KimballChernobyl Odinsdottir @eightpointvalkyrie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I haven't been near 4Chan in damned near a decade now, and I don't really have a finger on the pulse of the culture over there any more. But from what I can recall, if even /pol/ thinks you've gone too far with blaming minorities, you may need to rethink your strategy. 13853120
Reposted by Aaron KimballEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years. 12842235
Reposted by Aaron KimballJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...semafor.comExclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investmentA cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base. 2112086793
Reposted by Aaron KimballKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is my new favorite thing. 74163755231
Reposted by Aaron KimballFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worth remembering that Oprah Winfrey is as essential to Dr Oz’s origin story as George and Martha Kent are to Superman. 2137558
Reposted by Aaron KimballFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 20/09/2026Apparently things are so bad for Flock with contracts getting cancelled that the company has put together a voluntary severance program for its employees. Giddy thinking about detrimental Flock headlines when we get major corporate contracts dropped! www.wired.com/story/flock-...wired.comFlock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers FleeAs dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned. 212444
Reposted by Aaron KimballElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/09/2026iOS 27 gives us Siri AI, which can dig deep into your device to find information, but introduces some new privacy problems to consider. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgHow to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more 717189
Reposted by Aaron KimballRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy. 17942801277
Reposted by Aaron KimballErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...erininthemorning.comThe Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By StateThese are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle. 7837131373
Reposted by Aaron KimballChicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts — including his touring band — abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.chicagotribune.comEd Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper MacklemoreEd Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts — including his touring band — abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who ... 1101398300
Reposted by Aaron KimballElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/09/2026“These records really confirm what advocates, providers and lawmakers have been warning about since WISeR was launched,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @marketwatch.com. “It’s troubling that CMS knew about much of this and didn’t communicate it to the public.”marketwatch.comMedicare is using AI to approve claims. The result has been ‘alarmingly high denial rates.’A pilot program using artificial intelligence to approve care for Medicare beneficiaries has resulted in high levels of denials and delayed decisions and prompted warnings from a vendor about a lack o... 112468
Reposted by Aaron KimballPaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Love this discovery adding to strong dinosaurian ties between North America and Europe during the latest Jurassic. Certainly, the J/K boundary story is a shared Euramerican story. phys.org/news/2026-09... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.socialphys.orgFirst confirmed Diplodocus outside North America reshapes Late Jurassic migration pictureIn a discovery that challenges our understanding of dinosaur distribution during the Late Jurassic period, paleontologists have identified the first evidence of the iconic Diplodocus outside North Ame... 2399
Reposted by Aaron KimballPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral." 7763781787
Reposted by Aaron KimballA.J. Wilden🏳️⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message" 52144905755
Reposted by Aaron KimballChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026Where are the GPUs? Undeployed, in warehouses because there's a cartel colluding to keep prices artificially high and keep the world dependent on inference capacity rented by about 6 companies. 181452308
Reposted by Aaron KimballRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Elon Musk is bankrolling an ad campaign to get you to check your voter registration through an innocent-sounding website. But his real goal is to collect and sell your personal data to advertising companies, Big Tech, and other Republican PACs.popular.infoThe hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.orgThe slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine. 10222491559
Reposted by Aaron KimballFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 09/09/2026Despite major outrage from users when they initially rolled out age verification systems, Discord plans to make all accounts teen by default GLOBALLY & you have to scan your face or upload an ID to prove you aren't one. www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-b...gadgetreview.comDiscord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of UsersDiscord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods — each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing. 32493451
Reposted by Aaron KimballKai Bones 🔜 Gateway Fate @kaibonesart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Reminder to cancel your Nitro. Best way to make them listen is hitting them where it hurts. 48686
Reposted by Aaron KimballFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Today marks the one year anniversary of people losing their jobs because they accurately pointed out that Charlie Kirk was a hateful bigot. 1542669
Aaron Kimball @aaronk84.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Y'know, sometimes the Chess soundtrack just hits different. 000
Reposted by Aaron Kimballandy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...) 8379822142
Reposted by Aaron KimballOrcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP. 0238
Reposted by Aaron KimballLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It may be small minded of me but no monetization is worth doing this to yourself. 25931167
Reposted by Aaron KimballCool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026James follows up on last week's episode and talked to Miles Gray about what it is like to lose your home in a fire and how people can continue to help fire survivors. @jamesstout.bsky.social @milesofgray.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119... 35713
Reposted by Aaron KimballTuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: 1511464010099
Reposted by Aaron Kimballevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Organizers and activists who oppose the Trump administration's policies should absolutely be paying close attention to this story: theintercept.com/2026/08/28/t...theintercept.comTrump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The Real Target Is Free Speech in the U.S.Trump designated a collective that provides anonymous email services as a foreign “terrorist” group. It could curtail free speech in the U.S. 617792
Reposted by Aaron KimballKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026lmao the Soap Girls — a band that spews white genocide conspiracy theories — is playing in Buena Park now, I’m sure this will go well 2767693
Reposted by Aaron KimballMichael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Margaret Killjoy has a great two part episode on Robin Hood that covers the connections between the Robin Hood mythos, and piers plowman and the 1531 peasant uprising. bsky.app/profile/cool... 217326
Reposted by Aaron KimballC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Meanwhile, engineers have admitted that model collapse with this Ai is inevitable. Meaning it ALWAYS eats itself and goes insane as it starts eating its own slop. This makes it largely useless at massive scale, as many of us already know. But the promise of it “getting better” is evaporating. 560775
Reposted by Aaron KimballC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Without protections, lawsuits could cost the companies more than Ai saves, making human labor preferable in spaces they thought humans were gone from forever like customer service chatbots. This has killed growth, leaving all the unused data centers with little to no future users. This gen is dying. 356864
Reposted by Aaron KimballC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use. 131613505
Reposted by Aaron KimballBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten. 401203494089
Reposted by Aaron KimballWikipedia @wikipedia.org · 27/08/2026We bet you’ve started seeing Wikipedia rabbit holes everywhere since following us. 58410
Reposted by Aaron KimballElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/08/2026"The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary," EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @reason.com.reason.comRubio uses terrorism law to ban secure email serviceThe State Department doesn’t accuse Autistici/Inventati of doing anything more than providing surveillance-free email accounts. But that’s enough to declare it a terrorist organization. 7351191