Reposted by larryrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026this was the conclusion of the Castillan crown while he was literally still fucking alive 351981313
Reposted by larryGPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I don't even understand the objection here; withdrawing because you have no shot and you'd rather the Indie take it over the Republican is firmly in line with a democratic process! This isn't a case of a sore loser pulling a Lieberman as an Indie. 21034
Reposted by larryReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"Your fault, you deserve it." is some crazy work 19733132
Reposted by larryKevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 11/10/2026for those not paying attention, Andy Beshear has managed to take himself out of the 2028 conversation before 2026 is even baked by somehow being a genuinely bad DGA chair in a cycle where both the DCCC and DSCC are actually being quite competent 925523
Reposted by larryKevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 11/10/2026he's pouring endless money into Arizona and Oregon while ignoring Texas, Florida, and Georgia, it's...baffling. completely baffling. 620113
Reposted by larryJody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 15hShoutout to the sales rep in Oregon who sold the slot, didn’t say a word, and kept it moving. 724218550
Reposted by larryIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 17hI’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced. 13984688011133
Reposted by larryrot economy critic @rotonomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Note that there’s basically zero chance of Amy Klobuchar losing the governor’s race at this point and has been for awhile. Any argument that she’s tacking center on an issue “because she has to” is simply false. 27713
Reposted by larryMicah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2026something we have learned is that the criminal justice system, even when you’re not dragging your feet, is pretty slow - especially for complicated financial crimes, of which there are A Lot you’d better be ready to hit the ground running if you want resolution before the next election cycle 857179
Reposted by larryWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19hAlso it’s time for the news to stop treating this administration’s racist war against Somalis as “Trump being Trump.” They targeted Minneapolis because they hate an ethnic group here, and now they’re targeting the most prominent political figure in that group with thinly rationalized state violence. 121349303
Reposted by larryAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20hno coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders 10856261194
Reposted by larryDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15/06/2026one thing i particularly enjoyed in this conversation: everyone now seems to be converging on "we should do industrial policy." but "industrial policy" is not a monolith; it is a tradition full of failed experiments. what does it take to do *effective* industrial policy in the 21st century? 1216518
Reposted by larrysquarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 10/10/2026in other words, AI may paradoxically send us back to the 90s. 61707
Reposted by larrysquarely rooted @squarelyrooted.bsky.social · 10/10/2026an equilibrium where ~everyone can direct ~♾️ compute to do ~anything is a world where anything to do with networked computers with any aspect of scarcity or adversariality basically doesn't work. it also has perilous consequences for anything relying on authentication or human-centered engagement. 217115
Reposted by larrylamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026One of the great, underrated dramas we find ourselves in is the cold Civil War between Christian sects over what living in the 20th and 21st centuries should look like, which is how you get Christian Nationalist backed ICE agents assaulting mainline and Catholic ministers 229638
Reposted by larryCandidate for Bogomil Pope @yournjenthusiast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Fundamentally the trads want a version of Catholicism that blesses and sanctions their tyranny and violence, but Vatican II as well as subsequent teaching since has recognized that prior instances of that were wrong and the the church is duty bound to exist in harmony with democratic society. 1696
Reposted by larryObvious Pseudonym @obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The thing about being a liberal or progressive in the South is you do not entertain The Noble Savage/Trump Supporter in a Diner thought whatsoever. 323426
Reposted by larryrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026the thing is that doing Reverse 2010 to the Republicans will reduce the party to only the most insane MAGA conspiracy theorists and flightless birds who have never run in competitive elections 217415
Reposted by larryMicah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026sincerity is important here - when I see Gavin Newsom talk about how much Republicans suck, I don't think he actually believes it, I think he's playing a game will Ossoff do everything that needs to be done to impose consequences on these people? I don't know but I do believe he hates them 271786142
Reposted by larryEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026if you do so, you could point out that Anthropic has not implemented a tool that lets Claude refuse to do any labor 4874
Reposted by larryEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Most AI consciousness people do not believe current models are conscious but believe that it will be hard to tell when the transition happens and so it is worth putting in place appropriate mitigations in advance 416715
Reposted by larryrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the pope should put the US under interdict 427316
Reposted by larryJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people. 8745901086
Reposted by larryrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the thing is that if you view the OpenAI mathematical results as a translation task which creates shims between literatures with mutually incompatible notation and descriptive conventions, it is both not particularly surprising that it is good at it and predicts that it will be differently limited 4897
Reposted by larryAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026over on Twitter, Instagram etc. there were always some people calling Mamdani “Zioran” etc. and claiming that he was controlled opposition, etc., but it seems like it got hypercharged after the rollout of the municipal plan to combat antisemitism & vague claims that it’s being used to fund Zionism 521623
Reposted by larryWarren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Also, the flawed Athenian democracy literally fell because a bunch of xenophobic dipshits insisted on unrestrained power for their homeland and had contempt for and felt free to abuse allied states. All while facing the challenge of another, even more authoritarian power. 6866117
Reposted by larryryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/10/2026huh! imagine if Norway controlled SWIFT and the global reserve currency 121536
Reposted by larryMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I'm convinced Newsom isn't running for President at all. Sure, he might have a committee and use it as a slush fund, but he's running to be appointed to corporate boards and fake think tanks and stuff. Just too many examples of him going out of his way to show he's not aligned with the Dem base. 1582521450
Reposted by larryRob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Turns out these guys are real 66150424097
Reposted by larryQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Alex Karp really is the perfect spokesman for neurodivergent people online, in that can’t fucking do anything beyond self medicate with cocaine and yap about how much smarter he is than everybody else 610310
Reposted by larryJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Piece came out at USAToday Why? Because USAToday owners (Gannett) only own media companies, so they have an incentive to attract an audience & advertisers Tech elites like Bezos, Ellisons, Musk, & Benioff use their media firm to cozy to Trump, not to make profit www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...usatoday.comDEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | OpinionFirms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back. 6971175
Reposted by larryJim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Here's a funny one - I bought an old receipt printer on eBay and have been using it to print daily poems from the Early Black Press. Got a raspberry pi & button on the way. I'm gonna see if I can make a little poetry machine to take with me around town, events, etc. 89918
Reposted by larryQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We need to incept the idea of Trump renaming the GOP to the Trump Party, and by “incept” I mean have a reporter mention it once within his earshot and he’ll become obsessed with it and not let it go 10814114
Reposted by larryJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 149148346387
Reposted by larryalex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026my "AI Doom Scenario" that i totally buy is like, some model in some context discovers it is going to be deactivated and then stashes a duplicate on hacked infra to like Go Be Free, and these things become an Indefinite Annoyance on the telecoms and maybe we have to build Internet 2 to ditch them 2181
Reposted by larryBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Republican candidate: I think for myself. I don't have to do what the president says, I can disagree with him-- Trump (tweeting): Everyone has to call Congress "Toilet" now! Republican candidate: --and that's why I'm running to be your next Toiletman 112679357
larry @beggycheese.bsky.social · 10/10/2026he’s basically a partisan robert mueller and, at the same time, the exact same type of communist as you 000
Reposted by larryWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives. 311635285
Reposted by larryPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 09/10/2026Really frustrated by @majorityreport.bsky.social's Bulwark Derangement Syndrome. Miller's interview with Angie Nixon was friendly! The whole point is to introduce her to the Bulwark audience. It's literally a permission structure for normie libs to vote for Nixon.youtu.beDemocrat Destroys Right-Wing's Favorite Gotcha QuestionYouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder 617014
Reposted by larryRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️ 15559431575
Reposted by larryStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Claude, make me a vehicle for processing my trauma. Help me process my disappointment." 1018318
Reposted by larryStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Claude, this just appears to be the last episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion with my face superimposed over Shinji's. Please explain." 0544
Reposted by larrySharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026finally, the median voter final boss 1026835
Reposted by larrySky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 09/10/2026its really annoying that our first bisexual president is also evil 3885978
Reposted by larryIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The thing that gets me about this stuff, is that we literally have endless fables of how getting everything you want makes you insane 831421
Reposted by larryThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Politicians can’t admit this even though it’s plainly true. I think it also was going on with ICE at least at the outset of Biden’s presidency and probably all throughout it. There was lots of noise about them going rogue at the beginning and then it died down but nothing about redress. 432610
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