Reposted by Tom BozzoJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19hThis is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 9876422371
Reposted by Tom Bozzo🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 19hYou see, the benevolent dictator is more efficient, but only if he acts in my interests. What happens then, when there is a benevolent dictator who acts on behalf of others and brings harm to me? How do we prevent that? Oh, I guess you haven't read that far yet. 818833
Reposted by Tom Bozzomtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's fascinating to learn how many more kids die in ATV accidents every year than in e-bike accidents, then observing that there is a moral panic about kids riding e-bikes but not about kids riding ATVs. 561066159
Reposted by Tom Bozzoe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23hthe crazy part is that if you build strong safety cultures rooted in anticipating and avoiding real-time, real-world harms, you don't often find yourself blindsided by unanticipated X risks... this isn't a zero sum choice, and safety culture hasn't emerged randomly or by accident 840842
Reposted by Tom Bozzoe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23hI don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises 151553358
Reposted by Tom BozzoJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/... 961974567
Reposted by Tom BozzoShobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 04/10/2026This is just nuts. "Microreactors may eventually end up on the moon, but none are proven and ready. Fundamental safety questions--how to get rid of heat, how to shield the reactor, how to maintain the structural integrity--have not been fully resolved for space reactors...."nytimes.comSuperpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon (Gift Article)The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great. 134016
Reposted by Tom BozzoSusan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Since political classes are subservient before the donor class, D elite will want to show their belly and indicate they will cooperate with donors by working with Republicans. This must not happen. Rs must be shut out; completely deprived of power. 2/2 032
Reposted by Tom BozzoSusan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When a narcissist does this, it means he is losing. He is being thwarted, he is not getting what he wants. Trump knows he is going to lose power after the midterms and he is livid. This is where we push even harder. No compromising, no bipartisanship. 172
Reposted by Tom BozzoAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 03/10/2026Tariffs Gulf War 3 mass deportation of productive neighborsstatic.klipy.comI Think You Should Leave Hot Dog SuspectALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect 1489
Reposted by Tom BozzoMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc. 301041348
Reposted by Tom BozzoSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Trump’s TIME interview should have been treated about like Biden’s debate performance. That it mostly wasn’t says a lot about the media’s ongoing normalization of Trump’s cognitive downward spiral. 361605404
Reposted by Tom BozzoZamafir @zamafir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“This summer, Mavis also paid $700 million to acquire auto-service chain Pep Boys” ‘Damn, that’s crazy’ I think as my EV will never need new brakes, still green on tire tread over 40k miles, with regular service calling just for tire rotation and cabin filter that takes 30 seconds.apple.newsThe Brothers Dominating the $211 Billion Car Repair Market — The Wall Street JournalMavis, Midas and Pep Boys are on a tear across the country as the average car is a historic 13 years old and more complex than ever 051
Reposted by Tom BozzoMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27785304
Reposted by Tom BozzoMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026👇🎯 Not a single elite journalist with an Ivy League degree is practicing this advice, & the lifetime income returns to college have not changed despite The Narrative™️ that cannot fail (it can only be failed). Fund the damn public universities, & stop telling people they shouldn’t pursue education. 715324
Reposted by Tom BozzoDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 201765884
Reposted by Tom BozzoDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This privately funded and constructed “ballroom” is going to be so full of foreign surveillance devices, it’s going to have to be torn down by the next president as a matter of national security — which, happily enough, constitute magic words that make anything a president wants to do legal. 413735
Reposted by Tom BozzoGrace @gracekind.net · 03/10/2026Just found out the Pope doesn’t believe in computational theory of mind. My day is ruined 1952749
Reposted by Tom BozzoSusan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He has a Paxton advantage and a Ford truck gas advantage too. 032
Reposted by Tom BozzoEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter... 24630341780
Reposted by Tom BozzoMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The NY Times says it’s “not clear“ why Trump is using taxpayer funds and not money from his super PAC for his self-glorifying ads. But it’s clear to me. It’s because HE‘S A CROOK. 29573137
Reposted by Tom BozzoJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This one hits hard. 7713572410540
Reposted by Tom BozzoKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis— 621727695
Reposted by Tom BozzoGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think it's bad that kids simply *riding* e-motos are viewed as problematic. What about the high schoolers I see driving trucks and overpowered cars? Or parents in giant SUVs? Both of which are more dangerous. No, no, the kids on e-motos are the real scourge. 226729
Reposted by Tom BozzoBikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 02/10/2026"The most ordinary man imaginable" is just a perpetually-twisting dagger 1193
Reposted by Tom BozzoGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026elon musk on: stealth aircraft (for the record: everyone involved with low-observable aircraft is acutely aware that they are not "invisible," they just have an rcs so small they can't be effectively detected until they are close enough to have already launched weapons and that is super useful.) 1971389171
Reposted by Tom BozzoZach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Just to be clear: If this was Joe Biden, Alex Thompson would've already had 18 different stories on Axios, posted 50+ times on X, and done at least 5 hits on CNN. 2032573
Reposted by Tom BozzoSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I can't shake the feeling that Elon Musk returning to government service will be as catastrophic as Donald Trump returning. Democrats and the media not spotlighting his ongoing public racism and watching him to just Irish goodbye from all the damage of DOGE is going to haunt this country. 11505133
Reposted by Tom BozzoBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One of the dominant narratives about the labor market over the past couple years has been that it's a "good time to have a job but a bad time to be looking for one." I think that's only half true. A quick 📈🧵: #EconSky #NumbersDay 310828
Reposted by Tom BozzoOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Republicans pulling resources out of North Carolina because they’re worried about KANSAS tells you everything 514221
Reposted by Tom BozzoChrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 03/05/2026"I know 90 pound female drone operators in Ukraine with more confirmed kills than smallpox. Your post goes hard if you don't know jack shit about modern warfare." 52947160
Reposted by Tom BozzoKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026My lukewarm takes on the permitting bill draft: - It'd accelerate dirty energy and clean energy. - Anyone who claims to know how much it'd accelerate dirty vs. clean is lying to you and/or themself. - Most important consideration is how it'd affect Dems' odds of kicking fascists to the curb. 44214
Reposted by Tom BozzoMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also, every major media outlet in the country was platforming Larry Summers nonstop to ignore all the data & lie about stagflation. It was a deeply unserious time in American economic policy discourse. We should never do that again. 37212
Reposted by Tom BozzoMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation. 9431136
Reposted by Tom BozzoJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The entire last decade has been an exercise in creating a different set of standards for One Special Boy. Trump can never fail, people can only disagree about his performance. It isn't that he doesn't understand anything, he has unorthodox economic stances. It's delusions framed as evenhandedness. 59028
Reposted by Tom Bozzojamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25561371143
Reposted by Tom BozzoAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame... 271042196
Reposted by Tom BozzoHow-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?cbc.caHidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC NewsA new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young... 511669382
Reposted by Tom BozzoJohn Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don't think this line got as much coverage as it should have.talkingpointsmemo.comJD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance... 626489
Reposted by Tom BozzoChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 1131335479
Reposted by Tom BozzoDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Rare you get live visuals of state capture. 43864208
Reposted by Tom BozzoLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A version of this killed Red Lobster, not Endless Shrimp. They sold off all their real estate and then leased it back. 43813
Reposted by Tom BozzoAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 02/10/2026+29K jobs gained last month (mid-Aug to mid-Sept). -60K jobs in revisions of prior 2 months. The big picture 48529
Reposted by Tom BozzoKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My man looks like Poochie the Rockin' Tech Supporttheguardian.comExclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails revealPalmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts 4193122483
Reposted by Tom BozzoAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firingstime.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections. 66365952554
Reposted by Tom BozzoJohn Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Enhanced Geothermal is on the grid. 30% efficient tandem PV is on the market. Passively cooled sodium BESS is on the grid. 1/3 of heavy duty trucks sold in China are electric. We're gonna win. 2396
Reposted by Tom Bozzodarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end” 1773657598
Reposted by Tom Bozzoryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/10/2026nobody has ever had a worse case of Gender Ideology than Whiskey Pete. a guy who thinks you win a drone-PGM-interceptor war by doing cock push-ups at them 723227