Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h> @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates... 30570119
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21hA good reminder from Ed that not everyone will be able to afford a personal agent — even as the Internet is re-wired around them. @edmundlee.bsky.social #Muse 33375100
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20hbetween the metaverse, the pervert glasses, and now this fuzzy avatar mess, Meta is on a generational run of real-world Black Mirror episodes 17554127
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026Paxton on data centers: "Do these things need to be built in a neighborhood? I think there can be some negotiation ... there's plenty of open space in Texas that we can put data centers." 136542118
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026asked about gas prices, Trump says "if you want to see turmoil and a travesty, let them take out a city with a nuclear weapon ... let them hit us with a nuclear weapon" 4741212301
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BURRY: “.. Fundamentally, I am moving timelines up. .. As such, I want more leverage in my short positions. Better timelines make leverage more palatable. Nothing says leverage like options, in this case put options, which are relatively cheap ..” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/m... 23405107
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2026the waves of body shaming are the worst thing about the Fuck Elon beat, but unfortunately when someone had enough money and power there is a public interest in the specific ways they are destroying their minds, bodies, and souls anyway, here's some informed speculation on Why He Look Like That 711810
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026WASHINGTON — Eight U.S. Marines were injured two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile attacked the ship they were operating on in the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... 531371589
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026He get weirder by the day... 3405
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/09/2026Chinese media is having a blast. 57618202
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As a reminder, she’s the Secretary of Education not the Secretary of Labor 1171676265
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialEddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool. 7762596
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialZinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...zinnedproject.orgSept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring PublishedSilent Spring by Rachel Carson was published. 17157762223
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you adopted a feral cat to the inside and he keeps meowing maybe he just really wants to smoke real cigarettes. You don’t know what he was up to before 633226398
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialLaprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And certainly not nearly as consequential for women’s safety and education than trans girls and women getting to play sports /s 520448
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess 522074529
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Good 🧵. This is Cleverest Little Boy syndrome. Smartest kid in class goes to college or enters the workforce and can't accept that they aren't the smartest anymore, leading to any number of strange rationalizations from reactionary politics to doomer rabbit holes. 427447
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialKashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Gift link to latest on ‘unexpected’ developments with generative AI: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission. 2298
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialRoger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump's ousting @cnn.com from Air Force 1 was foreseeable, because a 2-1 panel of the DC Circuit let him do that to the AP, after it refused to switch to “Gulf of America” in its stylebook. But that was an “unpublished” stay order—not binding precedent. … 1/4 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/b...nytimes.comWhite House Blocks CNN From Air Force One (Gift Article)CNN won’t be able to join President Trump on a Saturday trip to Tennessee. He had banned CNN and two other news outlets from the White House, but a court order on Thursday restored their access. 214248
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026EXCLUSIVE: Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 613961
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialThis Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/202664 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️ 7633361264
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 16892773043
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialnfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 27/09/2026———————— I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP. Two bust-outs in one week—this from the NYT (gift): How DraftKings Uses AI to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (gift) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...propublica.orgI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro... 033
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 27/09/2026Important context on rationalism as a religion ("sex cult") is that it is far from isolated. All of the TESCREAL bundle is studded with interlocking micro-religions. Silicon Valley is religiogenic, like the burned-over district of 19th century upstate New York. 25722
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/09/2026Well, looks like María Elvira Salazar officially lost to Trump. She called out his ICE tactics, saying immigration enforcement had gone too far. Then she tried to walk it back. It didn’t work. Trump and MAGA are coming for her anyway… 67469167
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026PLEASE SHAREyoutu.beMusk | Official Trailer | Bleecker StreetYouTube video by Musk 39937702
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialLady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek. 376135993866
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed 301969164
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialOli Hawkins @olihawkins.com · 27/09/2026Increasingly persuaded of the significance of the HuggingFace hack. Irrespective of OpenAI’s sloppiness, the behaviour of the agents is genuinely interesting. swarmtraces.orgswarmtraces.orgRevealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging FaceWhen a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence. 2238
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialCiara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥firstshowing.netMust See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo... 22949614
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself. 1227064
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There’s a “pro-data center party” taking place in D.C. right now, with a generative AI photo booth, AI themed cocktails 161809163
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialLex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products. 321701507
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14194942188
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialElon Musk's Jet Tracking @elonjet.net · 26/09/2026 ~ 623 gallons (2,360 liters). ~ 4,179 lbs (1,895 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $4,676 cost of fuel. ~ 7 tons of CO2 emissions. 0265
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026Trump has one rule: whatever he attacks someone else for, give him time. He’ll end up doing the exact same damn thing. Hypocrisy is his only consistent position. 53886360
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC 643149699
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 381371565
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialBruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great thread here on the administration's attack on higher education. 👇👇 0127
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Link to article: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...nytimes.comWhite House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. GrantsFederal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending. 416720
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialSteven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Great write-up of a rare unanimous benchslap from SCOTUS 215844
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026always hilarious when stuff that people insist must be a signifier of an optimistic techno-utopia turn out to just kinda suck 1518131
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/09/2026PATHETIC 527343
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialArchie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026New @economist.com leader from me on the perils of AI writing—and why readers, not writers, are the victims to worry most about. www.economist.com/leaders/2026... 1144
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialSteven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026BREAKING: SCOTUS again rebuffs Missouri plan to use Republican-leaning congressional map in the midterms 0197
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“.. 30-yr fixed now at 7.45% highest level since April 30, 2024.” @cnbc.com 32417121
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026oh noooooo 1322711
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(Bloomberg) - US manufacturers installed roughly 38,500 industrial robots in 2025, a year in which they simultaneously cut more than 100,000 human jobs. @blsuth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 38458251
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.socialSean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 25/09/2026Hard to watch Tesla's Semi launch event without thinking about how the company ditched its mission of "accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy" in favor of the gauzy and unspecific "amazing abundance" But it's interesting the head of Semi still seems focused on the former:techcrunch.comTesla finally moves to electrify trucking after a decade of work and delays | TechCrunchTesla's Semi truck, with a 500-mile range, is about to hit the road in big numbers, with the company saying it plans to make 50,000 units a year. 1325
Reposted by @annieeclipse.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026Tesla is the only "customer" for its "general purpose" Optimus robot, which are "confined to tightly controlled, supervised areas" and "programmed for specific tasks"... sounds pretty earth-shattering! electrek.co/2026/09/25/t...electrek.coTesla ramps Optimus to hundreds a week, but the robots can't generalizeTesla now builds several hundred Optimus robots a week, but a new report says the hands break, suppliers can't keep up, and the AI can't generalize. 2214129
