Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is all well and good and I will certainly vote but I still couldn’t wager the faintest guess about what Dems hope or plan to do with control of Congress and/or the Senate. I’m not trying to be doomer. They’ve all been banging the campaign drum but I hear no song. 000
Reposted by Alex Witkowskijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not 592593414
Reposted by Alex Witkowskionion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals 543131551
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Having one of those "Man, everything is hopelessly bad" days. 011
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have received 12 fundraising texts today. Only 1 from a candidate I’ve ever donated to before. 6 I’ve never even heard of. 230
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There are so many self-indulgent posts on LinkedIn about this and A) This is like me registering “Weapon.com” ahead of the release of Weapons. Different word! B) What‘s the overlap of people who are aware of new OpenAI releases and who type in [word].com to find something? 100
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiMakkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io 532623987
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026lol he really didn't enjoy Orlando did he 230
Reposted by Alex Witkowski70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Last day to sign up for my email art blog newsletter before the next issue drops! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io I think this one's really fun. See if you can guess the theme based on this sneak peek. Artists: Johnny Bruck, Lee Gibbons, Fred Gambino, and Shusei Nagaoka. 313227
Reposted by Alex Witkowskithe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers 4161871290
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I will stay loading my old Pentax with a step-by-step tutorial article open in front of me because I messed it up once and losing an entire load of film is devastating. 020
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19596013540
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiSUDDEN・DESU @sudden-desu.net · 24/09/2026I haven't advertised this in a while so: I also run a blog about Japanese bubble era (1980s to early 90s) aesthetics. If you enjoy retro Japanese style, consumerism, and pop culture (which presumably you do if you follow this account), check out BUBBLISM here: bubblism.jpbubblism.jp𝘉𝘜𝘉𝘉𝘓𝘐𝘚𝘔・Japanese pop style in the bubble era 05922
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiBenjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 24/09/2026Fully agree. I've been on a 🎢 coaster: ititial "good" LLMs made me worried, but revenue has increased 20% in the past year and we don't do AI. Good LLMs create business chaos, and I am a chaos enjoyer. Happy to talk agentic with clients, but the "expert" work is always that: talking. With humans. 082
Reposted by Alex Witkowskim @keptsimple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026we didn't know how good we had it 21117590
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiJames Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Wow. I hadn’t realised how much LLMs had killed StackOverflow (the site where coders traditionally go to ask questions when they’re stuck): “Just before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, there were more than 100,000 monthly questions asked on the site; last month, there were fewer than 1,500.” ft.comWho cleans up after the vibe-coding party?Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers 14664183
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026midterms fever baby get into it 784177
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever 188136482898
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19/09/2026Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones. 71752285
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The political ennui I feel lately isn’t doomerism that Dems can’t do well in the mid-terms—I anticipate they will—it’s that I do not trust them to do anything with any power they regain. I’m not even confident they have the slightest idea what they’d do with it. 150
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiSalgood Sam aka Max @salgoodsam.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think Criterion maybe hid this exploded diagram of the Lone Wolf And Cub baby cart I did for them a bit too well? And never mentioned me either in the short doc about artists who worked on it ~:( Seems like most people don't know they have it. But every now and then someone finds it again... 14611
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026cool cool cool I assume there will be accountability that doesn't come in the form of a pennies on the dollar saved fine 000
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵 341835794
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm convinced that this is just a big a reason for the tariffs as any (misplaced) economic claims: Tariffs give Trump discretionary power, and he likes being the sort of guy who can use govt power on a whim to impress people (in this case), or in return for other favors. 1272293400
Reposted by Alex Witkowskionion person @junlper.beer · 13/09/2026went to vintage computer festival today, its so funny how nerds who aren’t fascists or love ai are still out there making super neat stuff and love showing off their cool old repurposed tech 272881258
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiDiscontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Buffalo Bills chips, made from potatoes grown in soil from Highmark Stadium (The Ralph/Rich Stadium) 51458
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Was just doing basic math with shelf space measurements in my notebook and I felt like A Beautiful Mind 000
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026No you don't. You understand nothing because you are incapable of understanding. 2262
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I don't think anyone saying AI Doomsday predictions are "marketing" is suggesting that they're some coordinated comms effort to drum up sales. I think they're saying that repeating baseless claims about the omnipotence of this technology serves as marketing to the people with the pocketbooks. 100
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiEd Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights. 150108001822
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiStereogum @stereogum.com · 09/09/2026Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has kicked Muse off their longtime social media handles. Yesterday the company launched a new AI product, which is also called Muse, and now the band has been relegated to “@museband.” stereogum.com/2510793/meta... 821972
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Two points among many here: 1. Asking students to write without AI is not "trying to make AI go away" 2. If we accept that we can "AI proof" things in STEM but that writing is different, we'll end up giving up on writing--and all the learning that goes with it. www.chronicle.com/article/harv... 23810
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is my preferred kind of racism: blatant and unmistakable. 14721126
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I mean who can blame them? It's not like Hideo Kojima has a wildly passionate following of die-hard gamers who will support all of his projects and become passionate advocates of his work 000
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Whenever there's another internet meltdown over someone's AI superintelligence claim my first stop is to @timnitgebru.blacksky.app , @irisvanrooij.bsky.social , @olivia.science. People cry "We must listen to the experts," so I listen to the experts. 510828
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/202660-28?? I'm getting a taste of what it's like for one of our guys to be teflon for a change and I like it 203467219
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiJ.H. Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026yes....YESSS.....techspot.comCD and vinyl sales are surging as frustration with digital media keeps growingNews of the latest increase in physical media sales comes from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It revealed that recorded music revenues for H1 2026... 20052831222
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 08/09/2026static.klipy.comUnplugging a White CordAlt: Unplugging a White Cord 834332
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves 7486611359
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"AGI has been achieved." Okay, man. Sounds good. 010
Reposted by Alex Witkowskiweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers. 65114812260
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 29/08/2026History is a conspiracy to the proudly uneducated. Science is a scam to people who never paid attention to it. Government is a waste to people who know nothing about it. Personal ignorance of facts is not a valid argument against them. 517150
Alex Witkowski @alexincommunity.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In a moment when faith in governing officials is at an all-time low, I don‘t think any of them understand how hard it would go for someone to take one step beyond a pearl-clutching tweet and actually stand up for the people this administration is harming or belittling. 112513
Reposted by Alex Witkowskijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country 14073711179
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I, too, have been experiencing a sense of alienation from my discipline. Not because I don’t believe that philosophy strives for truth and objectivity, but because believing that the sort of pseudo-reasoning LLMs engage in can achieve these epistemic goods requires having a bad epistemology. 1669
Reposted by Alex WitkowskiStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I feel like I’m on fraud watch as an international relations scholar because I honestly kinda don’t fucking know why this country does anything anymore. If you held a gun to my head and demanded to know why we’re at war with Iran or feuding with Canada or want Greenland, I’d say the Lord’s Prayer. 57998120