Reposted by Andy OrbanLaprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 16hYes, and…. As a performance of sovereignty, the purpose of public executions has changed over time with shifts in the nature of sovereignty. The spectacle Hegseth intends is a largely a return to an earlier mode of public execution associated with early modern monarchies 🧵 13716
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 15h"AI" techbros are taking the wrong biblical cues. This is the correct take 👇 070
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 15hAt least his lectures are well-titled, I can believe that Thiel is the anti-christ 120
Reposted by Andy OrbanLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 17hI've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been. 9898224
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 17hPretty much my only use of the save post button is for a "to read" list. (Though occasionally I have to remember to save it offline because sometimes posts get deleted) 040
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 18hI guess the transparent "Caravans" scare isn't working this cycle 000
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 09/10/2026These monsters pray to a god of violence and bloodlust. So now we have clear confirmation that the era maga is going back to is that of public lynchings 4183
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Habits of mind, etc. Abusive behavior never stays contained. 010
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You and your (first century) pop culture references 050
Reposted by Andy OrbanErik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Here's my obituary of Jim Bakker, religious grifter scumbag. Let me provide a few highlights too. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/a-ca...lawyersgunsmoneyblog.comA Cancer on the Body of Christ: The Ballad of Jim Bakker - Lawyers, Guns & MoneyJim Bakker is dead, at the age of 86. Among the grosser religious grifters of American history, Bakker was a pure thief, someone who may or may not have really believed in his version of far-right C... 1828296
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The first piece of frightening media I remember, no idea what context but I was probably like 5 or 6, was some black and white war film segment where a farmer was plowing his field with a horse-drawn plow and the background is filled with rising smoke as bombing comes closer. 010
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm curious: when you use a commercial model (not local) does the content you upload get hoovered up into their training data? 110
Reposted by Andy OrbanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The book Venn I am going to suggest: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + Caliban & Witch + Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark 329621
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Hill doing their darndest to not be left behind by Axios 010
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I saw a really cool, vivid fungus the other day, gotta share! 0101
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Woof. There's a reason I never installed any Meta app on my phone 120
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's a little loosey-goosey about the mechanisms by which AI companies would actually be regulated in any way redistributes the hoarded wealth and resources. Spends no time on the environmental and other extractive harms. Also, the only real world examples claimed are machine learning, not LLMs 120
Reposted by Andy OrbanBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026In other words, voting only matters if it's the final stage of a sustained campaign to build and mobilize popular power. Without that, voting will get you precious little. 111838
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 02/10/2026As if I needed any more reason to keep avoiding ordering anything from Amazon or subscribing to anything of theirs 010
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Special birthday boy needs some more flattery or else 110
Reposted by Andy OrbanDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph 31224490
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Damn, that the most "I wrote this with AI" shit I've seen in a minute 040
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So far so good. I biked to IY and Martin Hardware this morning. (Have to go to Harrisonburg this weekend with the family, I don't see any way to avoid a car trip there.) 142
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seems to me tech jobs (support, development, etc) are overrepresented on bsky, which sees way more "AI" adoption. 040
Reposted by Andy OrbanDeborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When I taught at Colby College years ago, the trustees abolished fraternities, which dominated campus social life & were notorious for sexual assault &rowdiness all around. “Donations will decline,” cried the fierce opponents.Their threats never materialized. Before long it didn’t seem that frats 1/ 525665
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Should be "Super Trump Intelligence" or STI for short 010
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Kind of amusing the GOP is running a number of non-white candidates now that their support is cratering. (Funny because I can only imagine these kind of candidates dampen enthusiasm among the white fascio-christian base) 001
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Good for India, finally reversing the flows of colonialism 100
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I do and I don't want to know what kind of emails this person is sending using ai 2100
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ah, I guess that's what all the marketing is for, to elide that part and make it all look seamless 120
