Reposted by Abstronautica🏁jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 19370271101
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 07/10/2026sometimes i feel like people understand that the war on drugs is a failure across every front (# of drugs in country, # of drug users, utility of spending, millions dead, millions incarcerated, etc), but don't internalize that it necessitates entirely rethinking societal relationship to substances. 24923159
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thinking back to a year ago, when Ezra Klein did a podcast with Ross Douthat & said that to be competitive Democrats should run anti-abortion candidates in Ohio & Kansas. 36956161
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 04/10/2026Thailand is fascinating because they’ve basically used “be chill as fuck” as a diplomatic strategy and it has worked for centuries. 052
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 05/10/2026THE WORST FUCKING PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE AND IT’S EXHAUSTING 0173
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment. 8594101
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/10/2026did even a single "AI safety expert" come within a country mile of this threat model? 927648
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.wbur.orgMass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court recordsJoseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect... 10460361982
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@bft.wtf @cascoinfoundation.org this seems like it'd be lethal to y'all too. a16z making a "college alternative" is just...*chef's kiss* www.theacademysf.com#toptheacademysf.comThe Horowitz Andreessen AcademyAn Academy for unusually ambitious young people. Build your own projects in San Francisco, learn from the people shaping the future, and work inside leading companies. 010
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...theverge.comLG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standbyGamers Nexus comes for LG again. 14540381755
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 27/08/2026The nice thing about being a determinist is all systems are deterministic. The problem with being a determinist is that there’s just way too many interactions and influences for you to ever understand them except as non-deterministic 1102
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026As usual, the Centrist Messaging Geniuses have come up with a message that pleases literally no one. 741491141
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 28/01/2025Sorry to be A Geography Bitch about this but want to remind people that Google Maps has been doing dodgy shit labeling politically sensitive places differently depending on location for a long time, this is just the first time it's happening to a place related to the USA 15505123
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Ethan Catt @artofthecatt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I think people don't realize how much they subconsciously equate the concepts of Femininity with Sexuality. Once you see it, you can't really un-see it. And yeah, there's nothing wrong with drawin' sexy ladies or whatever, but when *all* the ladies you draw are sexy it's like. There's a pattern, man 1194
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026who would’ve guessed that writers who won’t do their own writing aren’t smart enough or aware enough or literate enough to know this is due to EU legislation and will be coming to every commercial model 628874
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Tether getting an audit is truly one of the zeniths of our current moment of chicanery. I am uncomfortable thinking about it 000
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 13/08/2026semantic drift of "nepo baby" becoming "any rich child" is going to drive me cuckoo bananas crazy. we had the words "rich kid" already 211912135
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name. 178130412596
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I am gonna have to adjust to an NBA without Russ. Dude was a demon on OKC for all those years, and despite the ups and downs before and since, he busted his ass every night no matter what. Many rims feared him. 000
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social PIECE: In this piece I critique a recent piece from @edzitron.com comparing the AI(LLM) boom to the "Subprime" Mortgage Crisis (and implicitly the GFC of 2007-2009). The ? is:"How big of a macrofinancial threat is the AI(LLM) Boom?" www.crisesnotes.com/sigh-no-ed-z...crisesnotes.com*Sigh* No Ed Zitron, AI bond issuance is not AI’s "Subprime Mortgage Crisis”EDITORIAL NOTE: Given the importance of this issue, and in a desire to be fair when writing such a critical piece, I sent a draft of this article to Ed Zitron to review and give his response to. I've ... 1620344
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It would be cool if any organization decided we were worth the effort and actually tried to help us but I figured it would be entirely up to us to find a way to survive 219724
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026“Why isn’t the media covering-“ my brother, what media 2143
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up. 1386489926
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The Economist interview of Elon Musk is astounding in all the ways you'd expect. Musk is unapologetic, combative and unwilling to accept or consider facts stated by the Editor in Chief who interviews him including about her own country. www.economist.com/leaders/2026...economist.comShould you be afraid of Elon Musk?Artificial intelligence is charging ahead. Not even its creators know how to keep up 3131072
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 10/07/2026@alphaville.ft.com with an excellent research note on $SPCX (expected 2028) 180
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid 2215349761
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I don’t think people need to be “crucified” for thinking Platner changed or whatever but I do think they should engage in serious self-reflection and humility, such as not referring to themselves as being “crucified” 995909682
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Largely given up yelling at the NYT because - as I learned too late - my outrage was the point. Leadership felt embarrassed by the Bennet resignation and viewed themselves in competition not with WaPo or WSJ but Bari Weiss and Chris Rufo. They latched onto trans rights as their proving ground. 223747
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/06/2026I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering. 8953881471
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Who is responsible for putting Seranthony Dominguez in to close a 1 run game? 100
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I didn’t think it was possible for me to feel this way, but I think I am tired of technology. 000
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Every year now there’s at least one book about how no one is heterosexual anymore. It’s amazing how much mileage you can get out of a ludicrously false premise. The issue is not that heterosexuality is uncool, the “issue” is that women finally have choices 11769102
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 17/06/2026I think it’s time for a new constitution, and good news, we don’t need to worry about Article 5, because the constitution is not currently the law of the land 1164
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 17/06/2026The president is constitutionally ineligible, he’s fighting an unconstitutional war, and took unconstitutional power over the purse; clearly the constitution is not real 263
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 07/06/2026incredible how succinctly this nails the problem with populism, or at least popularism. if being misogynist is popular, that doesn’t mean we should embrace it. matt, of course, knows this and is just making excuses for his bigotry. 846553
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/06/2026who decided to call it "vaginoplasty in boston" when "the big dig" was right there. 31105
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century 302040704
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I am here for Harrison Barnes minutes in the 2026 NBA Finals 000
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...liberalism.orgEnshittification, Despotification, and the Open InternetIt’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes. 291971645
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/06/2026inflation driving the cost of gender to absolutely ruinous levels 428223
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 01/06/2026if you just went by media coverage you would think that trangender kids playing sports are a much more immediate threat to the public well-being than a billionaire becoming a trillionaire by pumping $2 trillion worth of fraud into every single 401k 243755911
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 03/06/2026this was a beautiful and deeply empathetic piece from the always-lovely Grace Byron. a heartfelt thank you to everyone at The Verge involved in getting this on the front page there too - it means a lot @reckless.bsky.socialtheverge.comTrans teens want to talk about their futureSo why are we always asking adults? 04213
Abstronautica🏁 @abstronautica.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Excellent piece from @davidimel.com on smart glasses' seemingly imminent destruction of all forms of privacy. I think it's really important!davidimel.comWe're not ready for the smart glassesIntelligent eyewear used to be recognizable. Not anymore. 010
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Oh this is delightful. Let's start with SpaceX's violation of 17 CFR § 229.504 (Item 504). Their "use of proceeds" neglects to mention they are contractually obligated to use the first $20 billion from it to pay off a bridge loan. This is also while their quarterly cash burn exceeds $8 billion. /1 201648550
Reposted by Abstronautica🏁Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 20/05/2026Two relevant paragraphs from a recent essay of mine thefudletter.com/the-media-is... 1124