Reposted by Animal SpiritsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2hThis week Fox turns 30. MAGA now owns CNN and CBS News. Liberals have no interest in media investment. We’re fucked. 613326
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 22hLet's make Altman, Amodei and Musk personally liable for the negative affects of their products and see how their tune changes 010
Reposted by Animal SpiritsDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026talked to my teenage son about the cornell case the other day and told him he'll never be cool for stepping in and stopping guys from doing awful things, but that it's his responsibility to do so. he seemed to understand. i hope he did. 1957133
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I retrospect the signs have always been there but it's been disappointing watching Rock's descent into shittiness. He's not even funny anymore. 000
Reposted by Animal SpiritsAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island. 17646108
Reposted by Animal SpiritsProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Democrats gotta stop thinking that impeachment is about *winning* a conviction. It is about stop the behavior: funny thing is Ukraine still gets the money! 347949
Reposted by Animal SpiritsNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Ethicist | We increasingly suspect our son was one of the Cornell rapists. Do we have to turn him in now, or can we wait until he gets his Christmas bonus from his private equity firm? 1577992
Reposted by Animal SpiritsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 10041381252
Reposted by Animal SpiritsRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned. 32163781625
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's really funny how all the websites that make you scroll 4 pages down for the simple piece of information you want are bitter about AI letting users get around all their enshittification 010
Reposted by Animal SpiritsBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand. 517967
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In the age of AI I'm becoming more and more convinced that enacting form of UBI, strictly enforcing anti-trust, and strong consumer fraud protections is the only way to keep capitalism and democracy from imploding. 110
Reposted by Animal SpiritsJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you. 251524408
Reposted by Animal SpiritsScott Santens @scottsantens.com · 02/10/2026This is a big one that I think many people don't fully appreciate. Given a room of 1,000 people, it can be hard for one person to find and help those who need the most help. Give everyone UBI and watch as more than half the room leaves, because they only needed a bit of money. Those left need more. 46126
Reposted by Animal SpiritsAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My campaign has held more than 600(*!) events in 110 cities across Michigan. From Escanaba to Eaton Rapids, I see the same thing. Too many places left behind, a rigged economy, and corrupt politicians. New ad: 9142951338
Reposted by Animal SpiritsAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire. 22686902214
Reposted by Animal SpiritsKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist 8852431020
Reposted by Animal SpiritsDreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ZIONISTS: Thanks to Mamdani, Jews in New York City are under the constant threat of anti-Semitism MAMDANI: Here are my detailed plans to expand Jewish education and awareness, combat hate crimes, and increase security at synagogues ZIONISTS: Not THAT kind of anti-Semitism! 1124
Reposted by Animal SpiritsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes" 1152666529
Reposted by Animal SpiritsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power" 346124804629
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Anyone who owns stock in McDonald’s should get ready to sell. The whole point of eating at McDonald’s is for it to be cheap. No one needs to put up with this fraud. 010
Reposted by Animal SpiritsBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One obvious point about the Republican rats desperately deserting the sinking Trump ship: They're still rats. 361022163
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026AI is going to bring back in-person communication 000
Reposted by Animal SpiritsZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't understand the need to say dickwad CEOs can't make good stuff. This is the world we live in. A lot of my favorite things in the arts and sciences come from absolute bastards. The real argument should be about how to channel dickwaddery into good social outcomes, not whether the stuff works. 3533839
Reposted by Animal SpiritsDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11041811441
Reposted by Animal SpiritsAmyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i think about this too not only is it embarrassing and shameful that your stupid boss can’t tell, it’s shameful that you do it playing fake like this at all levels is corrosive to the spirit once you betray yourself enough times, cognitive dissonance encourages you to keep crossing lines 25712
Reposted by Animal SpiritsJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Love to see Medicare for Kids back on the menu, such an underrated path to M4A 790399
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is exactly right. As soon as we start enforcing the law on the people that build and prompt the machines the machines will get safe. 010
Reposted by Animal SpiritsMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No more shoulder-shrugging when a machine programmed by a person commits a crime. That means the person, not the machine, has committed a crime. 26765291
Reposted by Animal SpiritsWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Elon Musk is such a malignant force. Like, a comically villainous creep. 11018
Reposted by Animal SpiritsThe Shadow Over Innschwartz ✨🦑✨ @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about. 582483361
Reposted by Animal SpiritsPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Guy whose business model is giving loaded handguns to monkeys, announces that he is worried about all the rogue monkeys that keep shooting people 212435
Reposted by Animal SpiritsGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158... 25860181
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Access (and preferential treatment) was always the only leverage Trump had with the media to keep them from reporting honestly about him. It just goes to show you that de-platforming works against grifters 010
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If we really want to reign in AI, make the people building and prompting it fully liable for any damage it does. It will get a LOT safer after we put a few people in jail. 020
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Look out for one another and stay safe" Why is it so rare for a politician to recognize we're all in this thing together? 000
Reposted by Animal Spiritsbijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i think about this post all the time. you might too 3269441756
Reposted by Animal SpiritsDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460671071
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Genuinely amazing how much global good will Trump and Netanyahu have incinerated in the last few years. 031
Reposted by Animal SpiritsKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of society, but esp. the US and the UK, overemphasizes individual effort and problem-solving instead of systemic changes and better government regulations. And it's easier to hyperfixate on the choices of these individuals than focus on how institutions and gov policies discriminate and harm. 116834
Reposted by Animal SpiritsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Back in the 90s bill clinton empowered massive media consolidation that boosted figures like Rupert Murdoch. Today’s Democrats don’t seem to have learned anything and you have Rob Bonta, Gavin Newsom and DC Dems giving Ellison a pass. 17218
Animal Spirits @animalspirits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The oligarchs are scared to death that the pipeline of cheap labor is going to dry up when immigrants don't want to come here anymore. 040
Reposted by Animal SpiritsRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this. 381819678
Reposted by Animal Spiritscluesan al-gaib @clueless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026we are in the paul verhoven zone 1384
Reposted by Animal SpiritsAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The CW idea impeachment backfires isn't true. Nor is there any value in surrendering in advance on conviction. But there's a more important long-term consideration. Looking at all this and saying nope, we're not even going to say he should be removed, is locking in a message for future presidents. 517347
Reposted by Animal SpiritsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i think a debate between figures like gavin newsom and aoc about what the fuck does the democratic party actually stand for would be good for the party and america. 1016317
Reposted by Animal SpiritsCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language 5951601224
Reposted by Animal SpiritsOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A big part of my disappointment with Democrats comes from over 25 years of writing about politics and media. I have seen how a gang of idiots on the right has dominated discourse and whipped the media to be their poodle. The unwillingness of Democrats to try is literally the worst thing. 615423
Reposted by Animal SpiritsKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not sure if they're cowards who don't want to take him on or if they're complicit in taking money from him and people like him, but it's staggering. Standing up to Elon Musk should be an easy layup for any Democrat. 36819102