Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try 414022659
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialDominique 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
astrognome.bsky.social @astrognome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I don't know how hot of a take this is but I've long been convinced that 99% of these "thought they were a deer" cases are just dudes that have always wanted to kill someone and thought this is an easy way to get away with it. 000
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments. 292178627
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialSTEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time. 151423361
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused. 4049142534
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/08/2026I'm not an economist but my back of the envelope math suggests that Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI can't all simultaneously sell $30 trillion dollars worth of enterprise solutions to a global economy where the sum total of all economic activity currently adds up to under $120t. 491100258
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialChance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4645461568
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out. 114137692877
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what? 20746321579
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times 5973681606
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialedeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 17/05/2026ME: b-but Reverend Mother, we mustn’t, what if Shai Hulud hears the rhythm of our prayer and comes here and devours me?? MY DOMINATRIX: …I’m sorry can you explain all this again please 252036558
astrognome.bsky.social @astrognome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If I was a goalkeeper I would simply jump in the direction that the ball was going 000
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialScam Ghouldin @gotitatguineys.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one. 7194683631
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026If you haven’t spent time in DC I have to emphasize this is like significantly fewer people than you’d expect to see here on a random Wednesday in July 351232159
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/06/2026one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost" 334533988
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 13/06/2026It’s so obvious in retrospect, and yet so many incumbent Dems are simply blind to this, and the voters seem to finally be sick of pretending to be okay with it: we truly, utterly do not give a shit that these guys are friends of yours. They’re not ours. 2256
astrognome.bsky.social @astrognome.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Begging the Democrats to understand this. 000
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026democratic governors doing stuff like this is worse for voter turnout than anything the american left has said or done 251826450
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 20/05/2026We ended child poverty and had a huge public health initiative where the US army gave everybody lifesaving medicine and your boss wasn’t allowed to force you to come in for no reason, and then a bunch of child molesters decided that those things were making the great unwashed too uppity 4864181
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/05/2026Seen in Logan Square 1446961180
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it 201958482
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.social✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Happy fucking FURY ROAD day for all who celebrate. 20947304
astrognome.bsky.social @astrognome.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I'm so tired of living in a country run by dishonest morons with no moral compass 000
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 10/05/2026industry built on unpunished mass-scale theft continues to perform mass scale theft 10874282
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/05/2026One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation. 6265752298
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialNaomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Minneapolis celebrates spring with a parade of giant handmade socialist puppets and a festival where people row the sun across the lake. This year's Mayday festival was today, and I'm going to try to share some photos and videos (many taken by others) to try to explain it for my non-local friends. 151148284
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialan appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026there are more categories than there are active high school transgender athletes 335762
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialTim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men. 82134705342
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/04/2026The Maryland legislature recently passed a big energy omnibus bill that is effectively a huge bag of smaller policies. It's difficult to even summarize -- there's stuff on permitting, plug-in solar, data center, on & on. @jamiedemarco.bsky.social has pulled it all together into a master list:demarcoadvocacy.substack.comEvery Single Thing in the Utility RELIEF ActA full description of all 30+ policies contained in the 2026 energy omnibus package 13410113
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialDr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay 120111864070
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai... 19778592275
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialDavid Lublin @davidlublin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I keep coming back to this. 8931282
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 07/04/2026it doesn't matter that they're liars and bluffers, it doesn't matter that they're pussies, it doesn't matter that they (probably) won't do what they're threatening to do. its enough that they are saying it. its enough that it's possible. this is not acceptable to any living creature on the planet 51338228
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals". 20102003782
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat. 4863741782
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 03/04/2026we gotta send so many guys to the Hague 403604681
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026just insane looking back on it how much of the media got away with framing 2024 as "the right is for free speech, the left is for censorship" 141311284
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialLaura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Words cannot express just how impossible this is. It sounds like a bad sci-fi movie plot that failed to consider the input of actual scientists and engineers. 2133666
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialAaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare. 5640071251
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialWarren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/03/2026How can this go on for another 3 years? 197106783834
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 19/03/2026virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk 585197970
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density. Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it. 833229764
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. 3538021708
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025But we're going to touch the stove and we'll be touching it more than probably ever before. And we're not going to get burned. We're not going to get burned 85134911796
Reposted by @astrognome.bsky.socialBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go. Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it. 112219610