Reposted by Alchemister5Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 15hIs it still a dogwhistle if it makes everyone’s ears bleed? 59823
Reposted by Alchemister5Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22hThe Pentagon is informing more than two million current and former military members that their personnel records and sensitive personal information were stolen over a months-long compromise of one of its networks: arstechnica.visitlink.me/c-iBnRarstechnica.visitlink.meHacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive dataIt has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity. 65830
Reposted by Alchemister5Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026Today we’re launching Opt Out October, our guide for opting out of certain features and finding alternatives to products made by big tech companies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgHappy Opt Out October! Let’s Find Real Alternatives to the Tech GiantsOver the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems 6312166
Reposted by Alchemister5Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident 13840082216
Alchemister5 @alchemister5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have yet to touch software that AI has made better. Most of google products have gone to shit. Outlook keeps trying to fix emails because it doesn't understand tech jargon. 041
Reposted by Alchemister5emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/i...emptywheel.netIn the "Unites States" of "Super Intelligence," "Issues Are Remediated" - emptywheelOnce you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous. 67605173
Reposted by Alchemister5Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway 23940251045
Reposted by Alchemister5Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience. 833798552
Reposted by Alchemister5David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming. 341483293
Reposted by Alchemister5Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52528660
Reposted by Alchemister5Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It takes genuine talent to be this wrong 18645134
Reposted by Alchemister5Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073672301
Reposted by Alchemister5Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For nearly two years, I've been investigating a pattern of ominous legal letters sent to journalists by defamation counsel representing Bobby Kotick. That investigation is finally live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...youtube.comInside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the PressYouTube video by People Make Games 221180446
Reposted by Alchemister5joemag @joemag.games · 24/09/2026LinkedIn Post: So sorry to hear about the layoffs at X but we have plenty of roles at the Layoff Factory where you can spend months interviewing to maybe work on a project that'll grind you into dust then get suddenly canned when our other money faucet runs dry. My heart goes out to youuu! 412529
Alchemister5 @alchemister5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You know what will happen with your mail in vote right? 011
Alchemister5 @alchemister5.bsky.social · 23/09/2026 "You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him" - Norm www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...telegraph.co.uk 000
Reposted by Alchemister5Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026Next they are going to strip car insurance from anyone who hasn’t had an accident recently. 241702268
Alchemister5 @alchemister5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Don't let your children grow up to be thin skinned little bitches like Trump. 010
Reposted by Alchemister5Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty. 25768242251
Reposted by Alchemister5Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If you want to know when the MST3K shows will be available, step right up, here’s the info, right here! FYI I directed ep. 3, the Mystery Title. 2148886
Reposted by Alchemister5Techdirt @techdirt.com · 21/09/2026The Metric Is Not The Mission: History Rarely Announces Itself The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/21/the-met…techdirt.comThe Metric Is Not The Mission: History Rarely Announces ItselfThe Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions... 0297
Reposted by Alchemister5joemag @joemag.games · 21/09/2026steal like an artist my friends, steal like an artist 0191
Reposted by Alchemister5Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 160191173861
Reposted by Alchemister5Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Why you can't record media anymore, even though the VCR was incredibly popular, and how that connects to trucks you can't repair, printers that won't work without the most expensive ink, and believe it or not Trump's tariffs. Better things exist, why can't we have them? 27214
Reposted by Alchemister5Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The future tense of the headline (“will pay him back”) conflicts with the past tense that the president used (“I hear he’s paid him back”). The story doesn’t tell us whether the Times attempted to confirm whether Don Jr. has done this or plans to do so. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/u...nytimes.comTrump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding PartyThe president said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., had decided to return the money, but defended the gift worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as “totally allowed.” 1231048244
Reposted by Alchemister5Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Americans are bizarrely unaware of Russian sabotage and assassination operations running right now on their soil. Does this have something to do with the fact that the Kremlin paid for Trump Jr's wedding? 13350116
Alchemister5 @alchemister5.bsky.social · 19/09/2026static.klipy.comThis Is Fine Dog Meme - Everything's FineALT: This Is Fine Dog Meme - Everything's Fine 000
Reposted by Alchemister5Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It...uh...is not meant to be a competition 893731596
Alchemister5 @alchemister5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We would still have leaded gas and paint if these fuckers were around in the 80s. 040
Reposted by Alchemister5WIRED @wired.com · 17/09/2026Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost. www.wired.com/story/custom...wired.comCustomer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data CentersAmazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost. 714880
Reposted by Alchemister5Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight. 963767992
Reposted by Alchemister5jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028 26490921476
Reposted by Alchemister5CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It is ALWAYS worth remembering that the United States flipped from majority rural to majority urban about a century ago (sometime between the 1920 and 1930 censuses) and never ever even once came close to reversing. This is an urban nation, has been for longer than almost everyone has been alive. 221047
Reposted by Alchemister5Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 13/09/2026It's a basic thing that no one even bothers to talk about anymore. But he's simply never understood what trade deficits are. Never. When you are getting net investment into your country, you have a trade deficit. But that's good! Trade deficits and surpluses are not inherently good or bad. 39988200
Alchemister5 @alchemister5.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I wonder if he has a comment about Fallen retiring from Counter Strike? Like does he even care about history? 020
Reposted by Alchemister5Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The AI bros saying they need to slow down because AI is too good feels a bit like the car dealer who tells the customer “I think this might be too much car for you, sir.” 1022631
Reposted by Alchemister5Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/09/2026As I’ve been explaining: the mega-VCs can now sell their investment in a company to *another one of their own funds*, and capture the increase in valuation between rounds on their books—even if the company they invested in has never had any products, revenues or profits. anildash.com/2026/09/02/c...anildash.comVC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 722482
Reposted by Alchemister5Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored. 201110702284
Reposted by Alchemister5Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story? 5758171882
Reposted by Alchemister5Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026Trump lunges toward and growls at a reporter (a woman) who asked him about why he's offering money to voters if his economic policies are working (Andrew Harnik/Getty) 48256981981
Alchemister5 @alchemister5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Trump never has to work hard to spread his lies. Everyone just quotes him without a follow up for clicks. Then dumbshits believe him. 000