MJ Berends @apprxlinear.bsky.social · 17/02/2026One must never confuse a loss function for an application 000
MJ Berends @apprxlinear.bsky.social · 17/02/2026AI will absolutely revolutionize surveillance and weaponry and that is not hype 000
Reposted by MJ BerendsRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I find it hard to square the preciousness about "why would someone ever stay on Twitter?" when everyone on this site knows that the community here intentionally chased off lots of people. 611032116
Reposted by MJ BerendsPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 05/01/2026“… for no kingdom can maintain itself by force alone. Force does not work the way its advocates seem to think it does. it does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of his adversary. On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of his adversary…” - James Baldwin 012937
Reposted by MJ BerendsEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It is true that anyone with an internet connection can do horrible things to another person. But it does matter if you make it easier to do harassment at scale and that 50% of Grok requests are harassment should be a broad source of shaming 1625
Reposted by MJ BerendsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone. 633154202040
Reposted by MJ BerendsKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it. 301202885139
Reposted by MJ BerendsSkye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Remember a few weeks ago when Mark Kelly & a few others released a video reminding troops, “Our laws are clear — you can refuse illegal orders,” & Trump/Republicans melted down & called him a traitor Turns out we didn’t have to wait long for another preview of future courts martial 973291697
Reposted by MJ BerendsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party." 547167255300
Reposted by MJ BerendsEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It’s fairly concerning that just 2-3 people have managed to buy and flip many of the major news sources in the US. Like, the economic value of all news is not that much, they could buy the rest too 413924
Reposted by MJ BerendsJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes. 15375928620094
Reposted by MJ BerendsKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president. 769351609262
Reposted by MJ BerendsMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab 6175452079
Reposted by MJ BerendsA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/01/2026You're god damned right. Every word. 6595110
Reposted by MJ BerendsTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted. 493612486
Reposted by MJ BerendsMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Eagerly awaiting the first time a pundit says it’s inappropriate to criticize the president because we’re at war 231393176
Reposted by MJ BerendsIsaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a... 210120173425
Reposted by MJ BerendsKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world. 152100442585
Reposted by MJ BerendsSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 09/08/2025I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, MCP security and the lethal trifecta. Here are the annotated slides from my presentation, including notes on my weird hobby of trying to coin or amplify new terms of art simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/b...simonwillison.netMy Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security MeetupI gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t … 27710
Reposted by MJ Berendsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2025no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine 14062522110
Reposted by MJ BerendsAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time 390364437701
Reposted by MJ BerendsRuth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action? 1237303807006
MJ Berends @apprxlinear.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Deep cut for true weebs youtube.com/@biwakokun?s...youtube.comびわ湖くんチャンネル登録よろしく湖 010
Reposted by MJ BerendsPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The soft bigotry of low expectations 1394399414
Reposted by MJ BerendsMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies. 15836580520272
Reposted by MJ BerendsKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried. 1107330036418
Reposted by MJ Berendsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made 755135596
MJ Berends @apprxlinear.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Whoever came up with the phrase 「のど元過ぎれば熱さを忘れる」never watched Hot Ones 000
Reposted by MJ BerendsJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen. 8795586816975
Reposted by MJ BerendsMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/06/2025Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful. 398153141754
Reposted by MJ BerendsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all. 11091532161
Reposted by MJ BerendsAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis. 14113500912284
Reposted by MJ BerendsJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 08/06/2025I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet… 270159892032
Reposted by MJ Berendsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/06/2025looks like an objective assessment to me 499130252232
Reposted by MJ BerendsMaxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 08/06/2025There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking. 303249846709
Reposted by MJ BerendsPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States. 753200815
Reposted by MJ Berendsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/06/2025i don't want to dunk on any of the people who replied or quoted this with a "well ackshully the national guard will shoot protesters, look at kent state," but my request is to a) remember that kent state was over half a century ago and b) read about the NG's response in its aftermath 1536337757
Reposted by MJ Berendsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025everything means the opposite for these people. freedom means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think. 18962781766
Reposted by MJ BerendsGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 23/05/2025Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...texastribune.orgTexas Legislature on verge of completely banning THC products after key House voteThe House approved the ban after previously considering proposals to preserve the industry by tightening regulations. 602115722364
Reposted by MJ BerendsJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2025Bad people know that one way to control people is to make them feel economically uncertain, so more of their time is spent worrying about their own precarity and less on the general welfare and/or what the bad people are doing. There's a reason the current administration is undermining the economy. 23870216
Reposted by MJ BerendsPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government. 14424769011267
Reposted by MJ BerendsMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/05/2025This is an absolutely insane way to run a country 71669191650
Reposted by MJ BerendsKatie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Recession indicator: Indeed app is above TikTok in the App Store 432634
Reposted by MJ BerendsTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Usefully clear reasoning here. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump’s Gulag ArchipelagoTrump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world. 26637204
Reposted by MJ BerendsIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/04/2025If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking 248137613897
Reposted by MJ BerendsWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/04/2025It’s been a bad week for progressive protectionists lol 926612
