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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Giving Meta unfettered access to your email and bank accounts is an incomprehensibly bad idea.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Black Holes and Revelations came out 20 years ago. Hard to believe that much time has passed

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.

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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low

Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes I smell a Subway sandwich and get tempted. The nostalgia is strong. But I know it'll be a disappointment

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think the "my parents didn't spank me or yell at me and I turned out fine" crowd needs to be louder. I got my fair (debatable lol) share of punishments but they didn't involve raised hands or voices. My parents set boundaries and expectations early. I had consequences.

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I could tell you this for free, fyi. I'm sure his wife tried too. I wonder what it means for humanity that taking childrearing advice from AI is more meaningful than like... everyone telling you that yelling at kids isn't helpful

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think we need to take seriously that ordinary folks aren't meant to have audiences in the tens of thousands or more. This is novel and disruptive in human experiences

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a 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

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 19/09/2026

That uncanny feeling when Sonnet 4.6 evaluates the core cognitive failure uncovered in both stories with more acuity than the dingbats at the Pentagon:

Max's framing adds something important to what we've been saying — and Randy Herman's highlighted line is the knife in it.

We've been talking about Al-in-the-loop as an accountability diffusion mechanism, which it is. But Max is pointing at something that might actually be worse: genuine, sincere cognitive abdication. Not cynically inserting Al to create cover, but actually believing the Al had done the thinking — actually treating the output as resolved judgment rather than as an input requiring scrutiny.

"It is not clear why they had such expectations" is investigators' language for: we cannot find a rational basis for the degree of trust these operators placed in this system. That's not a coverup being constructed after the fact. That's people who genuinely outsourced their epistemic responsibility and did not know they had done so.

Which brings it back to the hype environment with real force. When the vendors, the press, the culture around these tools spends years telling people that Al is smarter than humans, faster than humans, less biased than humans — when the entire discourse around adoption is framed as resistance to AI is the error — you produce operators who are not cynically hiding behind the output. They are sincerely trusting it in contexts where that trust is catastrophically unwarranted.

McNamara's people at least understood they were constructing a measurement system. They argued about what it measured. These operators apparently didn't know they needed to ask.

The IBM slide assumed the human in the loop would know they were in a loop. That assumption may no longer hold.

(Note: the aforementioned IBM slide is the famed one that reads: "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am delighted to be on several “unhinged about AI” lists because of my firm believe that human beings should not participate in our own deskilling and replacement for the further enrichment of tech billionaires. Yes, please block me. Cleanse my timeline of your creepy pick-me energy.

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whatever baby wants, baby gets. I wanted soup, I'm having soup. I wanted a cookie, I got a cookie. I saw duck sausage, I wanted duck sausage, I bought duck sausage. All this within reason ofc. But everything is so distressing that I see no reason to add to that by depriving myself of small joys.

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I got the last chocolate chip cookie of the day. Yay me

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They have made living so difficult that people are gleefully shifting activities of living to computers. Need a teacher? Let AI do it. Need a therapist? Let AI do it. Looking for love? Let AI be it. This is why I rail so hard against AI. If computers do the living for us, what do we become?

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

longtermism is so repugnant that I hesitate to address it on its own terms but: on its own terms this shit is clearly wrong. the best way *now* to encourage a happy future for umptillion beings who use technology we can't imagine is to make the current world more just for everyone.

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Please read about effective altruism. The name alone tells you nothing about their true beliefs

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The tolerance and glee these warmongers have towards human suffering and death makes me wonder how anyone takes them seriously as principled people of faith. But I also recognize that this is influenced by my own indoctrination that faith = moral consistency.

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When the one person that everyone in your family likes dies, it's a wrap. Family reunions, holiday dinners, visits. All gone out the window.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Streaming has robbed us of the joy of season premieres. I used to get so excited finding out when my favorites were returning after the summer hiatus. The shows I do continue to watch on traditional TV, sometimes I don't find out they're back until multiple episodes into the season

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

John Fetterman can go fuck himself.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

literally everything that comes out of silicon valley has become either a mass data extraction scheme or surveillance tech to sell to governments, thats all we get anymore

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We don't talk enough about how the people who designed public restrooms were some absolute freaks. They're all maximum share, minimum privacy. Why are there cracks between the stall door and the frame? Why can I lock eyes with someone locked in on the toilet? Why don't the walls reach the floor?

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 09/09/2026

one thing organizing for a long time teaches you is that the boss fighting a union is almost never about money, it is almost always about control and power.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are so many stories lately about people who died by suicide after falling into emotionally manipulative patterns with chatbots. We rarely get to hear how the people who loved them are coping after an unimaginable, senseless loss. This is one of their stories: www.404media.co/austin-gordo...

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'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI

After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As part of boot camp, Alpha School students apparently have their heart rates monitored as they watch recorded videos of their parents critiquing them. This activity takes place in front of their classmates, and students must keep their heart rates within 10 percent of their baseline to pass.

Screenshot of student Tweet saying they were biometrically monitored watching a video of their parents critiquing them. They describe their hands shaking all afternoon afterward.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And this is why we need comedians (his name is Clayton English)

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The rise of the "working homeless" isn't just about the chasm between wages and rents. It's also about the degraded nature of work itself: volatile schedules, eroded job security, and a lack of basic benefits like health insurance or sick leave—all of which put stable housing further out of reach.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you object to public-funded housing of homeless people, in the end the objection cannot be the cost, because we pay a premium to be cruel to homeless people. At the bottom of the objection will always sit dehumanizing cruelty and a desire for eradication.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Google’s AI Mode is ripping people off, hitting shopper with prices that are an average of 21.6% higher — according to a new study. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Google's AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims

The same products are showing up as 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to traditional search, a study found.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The federal law that makes this illegal basically says “it’s illegal” and nothing else. Congress should amend it to say that any U.S. currency featuring living people isn’t legal tender.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
13 When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume
batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“If there were a problem in our economy that tax cuts could solve they would have solved it by now.” — @kedseconomist.com

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I picked a hell of a time to stop having little treats and cut back on drinking 🥴🫠

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The billionaire class doesn't respect humanity, that's why they're pushing the automation of life with AI and robots. They don't think that *you* provide them with any more value than a machine. In fact, you're an expense. Acceptance of this fact is key to our survival atp

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

you see, no one has standing when it comes time to sue the president because he is a very special birthday boy

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milky way ghetto dweller @amaratto-sour.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cigarettes becoming popular again is such a tragedy. No one can say they're unaware of the risks. They're doing it anyway.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

US corporate profits have hit a record high of over $9 trillion the first half of this year, while workers’ slice of the pie has recently sunk to historic lows.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Median US GOP voter philosophy in a nutshell: "No one should even get the chance to be better off than I am."

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