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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 41m
Although the question he got asked is a tricky one and the approach he took won’t satisfy everyone, this is how you campaign in the age of social media. He connects with people and shows he’s a fighter for them, which his opponent most certainly is not. Vote! www.tmz.com/2026/10/15/a...
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Abdul El-Sayed Fan of Human Rights, Hot Cheese
Abdul El-Sayed says Donald Trump doesn't realize it, but he's actually praising the Michigan senatorial candidate by mocking his name, but the first order of business Tuesday night was chowin' down on...
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Putin used dirty tricks, later attempted by Trump, to engineer a permanent majority for his party. He was then able to tighten the screws and within a fairly short time Russia has become a totalitarian state where according to the author no one even has politics anymore. jacobin.com/2026/10/russ...
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In Russia’s Election, Nothing Happened, but Things Got Worse
The stability of Vladimir Putin’s rule has long relied on encouraging citizens to ignore politics. But last month’s wartime elections instead saw a different approach, staging popular support for a fu...
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Why doesn’t the public (or at least some of our democratically-accountable representatives) get to know what’s being discussed in the conference rooms at OpenAI, since it profoundly affects all of our lives? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/t...
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F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office
OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I would certainly say the same about Israel. We have to stop doing foreign policy based on parochial interests. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return
Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Abuse of power is a serious crime. Of course Trump will preemptively pardon everyone involved and John Roberts thinks the president is above the law. So the remedy for this is to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security, which never should have been created. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The long to-do list in 2029 will not get far without tackling the issue of judicial review by SCOTUS. This is a power that is not enumerated in the Constitution but was believed by founders to be a good thing. Over two centuries of experience has shown otherwise. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m not sure what this is. It seems like a pilot program to give the equivalent of SSI for 12 months to people to help them stay sober. The Bros need to pay full salary replacement to EVERYONE who loses their job or income due to their machine, FOREVER. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/t...
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Is Universal Basic Income the Answer to A.I.-Fueled Job Losses?
For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Your tax dollars at work. End all aid to Israel. Individually sanction all settlers in the Occupied Territories. Sanction Israel itself if it tries to evade these measures. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire
Much of Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon has been leveled, according to a Times analysis. The majority has been destroyed by Israel since the April truce.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Europe may have talked about total victory in Ukraine but it’s never done what it takes to win while the US is playing both sides. I discount the nuclear threat: 20% of Ukraine that Russia knows doesn’t belong to it isn’t worth blowing up the world. But what are we doing? jacobin.com/2026/10/russ...
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The War in Ukraine Is Spiraling Out of Control
After years of warnings that the war in Ukraine could spiral into a full-on Russia-Europe conflagration, the conflict has reached a point where this is a real possibliity. It’s a prospect that threate...
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s not controversial that, other things being equal, humans (and many animals) prefer freedom. Nor is it controversial that other things are not equal. What to allow, regulate and ban is inextricably tied to what the costs, benefits and alternatives are, and for whom. jacobin.com/2026/10/phil...
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How Much Liberty Should We Limit?
At its best, the Left has championed the cause of freedom against both political and economic tyranny. Does the spread of scourges like social media addiction and sports betting justify more restricti...
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This analysis, which can be easily done by commercially-available AI so I hope NYT didn’t spend too much time on it, obscures the deeper machinations of elite power in Congress. If we had control of frontier AI we would learn some truly interesting things about that. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
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In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him
A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“How can it be that a proud, nuclear-armed world power is scared of red ink?” It’s because Chinese people don’t like you, Andrew, because you always write nasty and subversive articles about them on behalf of the capitalist elite. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/w...
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A Reporter Returns to China to Find it Richer, but Also Highly Paranoid.
Returning to China after decades away, a correspondent finds bullet trains, dazzling skylines — and a surveillance state more paranoid and pervasive than ever.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When those of us who see the most important conflict in society as between capital and everyone else complain that Democrats continually find ways to divide their own electorate in ways that undermine that core mission, this is exactly what we mean. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
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Opinion | Abolish Frats
As undergraduates, we led a movement to abolish fraternities and sororities. Our story shows how challenging it is.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Would we allow a self-regulated manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction to have an IPO? Workers saving for retirement have little choice but to fund the Tech Bros seeking to destroy their and their children’s future. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
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Appetite for OpenAI, Anthropic IPOs will be strong despite some negative headlines: Ives
Dan Ives says that despite some negative headlines, there will be plenty of appetite for OpenAI, Anthropic IPOs.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Famous last words: “A.I. won’t be replacing human meteorologists. With so much more information to synthesize, it’s the humans who pull it all together and get information to the people who may be in harm’s way. “Our role as trusted communicators will only increase. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/w...
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A.I. Hurricane Models Were Front and Center as Isaias Headed Toward Land
Expert forecasters say the new technology is helping them understand where a storm will go.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Similarities between Israeli and US colonialism are one reason the Palestinian cause resonates on the left, but there are crucial differences. We could pay reparations to Palestinians and consider our part settled. Our problems at home can’t be solved that way. www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...
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Israel’s Elections, Like Ours, Show How Much the Parties Agree On
In both countries, the debate is about how—not whether—to conduct imperial violence.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the dirty little secrets of Medicare Advantage is plans can and do exit unprofitable markets. The loss of competition causes rates to rise. They’ll often re-enter the market a couple years later, at a higher rate and avoiding the costly patients and providers. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
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Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Excellent survey of the past, present and future of DSA, a very necessary organization in these uncertain times. With obvious successes in the electoral realm and perhaps others that aren’t as obvious, the best way to ensure it doesn’t go off the rails is to get involved. jacobin.com/2026/10/dsa-...
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Where Are the Democratic Socialists of America Going?
The rise of DSA over the last decade is one of the most striking developments in American politics. The group has successfully navigated the US electoral system but continues to face considerable chal...
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bezos hasn’t shared Amazon’s productivity gains with its workers, who make less than $24/hr on average. Why would capital share AI productivity gains to allow workers to double their income or work three days a week? Instead workers’ standard of living will go down. www.foxnews.com/media/jeff-b...
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Jeff Bezos reveals his vision for America's next frontier — from AI to the moon
Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos unveiled plans for orbital data centers, a sustainable lunar base and launching rockets every minute from Cape Canaveral.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Newsom has been in the moral wilderness ever since he stopped doing his day job of running the 4th largest economy in the world and began a consultant-driven centrist run for the White House. This would be a wise course correction as well as the right thing to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Newsom Mulls Sparing Lives of All 563 Prisoners on Death Row in California
Gov. Gavin Newsom ramped up talks after a botched execution in Tennessee.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was going to give this article an F for focusing on yet another sideshow (human simulation) and rejecting out of hand that computers could ever have consciousness, but Robinson did hit on a key point: China unlike US actually does control its AI industry. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ban-lif...
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Noah Gordon sort of gets it, although he confuses the Tech Bros with ordinary capitalists when they are actually techno-fascists with a vision to totally remake life on this planet in the way they think it should be. jacobin.com/2026/10/ai-h...
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Could AI Fix Climate Change? Probably Not Under Capitalism.
In an interview with Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang floated the possibility that AI might offer a solution to the climate crisis. That would require taking AI under public control.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are a lot of bad actors in the Cornell case, but one of them is not ketamine—an amazing dissociative and psychedelic with unique medical uses. It’s not a weapon of mass destruction. Just don’t do drugs in the jacuzzi or with people you don’t trust completely. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/n...
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How Ketamine Emerged as a Key Factor in an Alleged Cornell Sex Assault
The powerful anesthetic has gained popularity as a party drug, including among a certain social set on the university’s campus.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m not sure if Talarico is not in control of his fundraising vendors, or if they’re operating independently, or if they’re scammers, but they’re breaking California law with the relentless calls, text messages and emails, and his campaign must be held accountable when this is over. Hope he wins.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The whole idea behind “managed care” that most seniors are now enrolled in is they, well, manage your care (mainly by limiting your choices to a small network.) Now we’re told to hire our own care manager at $150-$350/hr to help manage the managed care. What a ripoff. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...
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Aging Life Care Managers Can Be a ‘Godsend’ for Families
They can arrange a move to a senior living facility, deal with Medicare and Medicaid, recommend doctors, drive a client to the dentist, and much more.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reacting to an oddball sound does not consciousness make. It just means the sound is causing neural entrainment. This article misleads readers to believe scientists think a 26 wk fetus or hatchling bird is conscious in the colloquial sense of possessing introspection. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Are Babies Conscious?
By pinpointing when it begins in young humans, scientists hope to better understand what consciousness is, and how it arises, in all of us.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I heard this song has been #1 for most of the year so I thought wow it must be pretty good then. Wtf? m.youtube.com/watch?v=nUsr...
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Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas (Official Video)
YouTube video by EllaLangleyVEVO
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lambs to the slaughter: As Trumpism dies in the US, Brazilians turn back to the actual fascist Bolsonaro family. This will have huge implications for democracy in Brazil as well as destabilizing the international balance of power, emboldening the US to continue a policy of violence over diplomacy.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This piece discusses one theme I’ve been harping on since last year: Massive AI-related labor disruptions that everyone in management sees coming. Simultaneously, we’ll see a power grab by sociopathic Tech Bros and the security state, and an extreme threat of world war. jacobin.com/2026/10/ai-l...
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The Bosses’ Oldest Dream
The first computers were designed with labor discipline in mind. Today’s AI industry is finishing the job, and young white-collar workers are already paying the price.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There’s simply no way to save democracy that doesn’t involve reducing the wealth of the ultra-rich and limiting what they can spend their fortunes on. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNg2...
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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why is Thune hiding behind Cotton when he could just bring the daylight savings vote to the floor? We see all the time that when Congress doesn’t want to make a decision it hides behind procedural excuses including the “rotating villain”. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump drops Republican Senator's phone number in social post over fury on stalled bill
President Donald Trump posted Tom Cotton's alleged cell phone number on Truth Social, urging Arkansas voters to pressure him on daylight saving time.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s war on Medicaid and Exchanges gets a lot of press, as does the Medicare Advantage scam robbing seniors of value they paid for, but not nearly enough about the collapse of the commercial market as employers increasingly self-fund, giving them strong incentive to discriminate and limit care.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The $90 checks are a Trumpian solution to a problem at the core of US healthcare: costs are rising far faster than inflation. We’ve seen some improvements in seniors health along the way but we’re being vastly overcharged while doctors, hospitals and insurers are now all motivated to delay and deny.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flipping is the easy part. Dems had a governing majority in DC during the New Deal era because they delivered for working families. Today’s Dems deliver, at best, half-measures and so voters are cycling between them and far right, desperately looking for leadership. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Democrats May Have Found the Recipe for Flipping Red-State Senate Seats
Five new Times/Siena polls continue a run of strong results for Democrats in states that President Trump won easily in 2024.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Cornell case is a good example of how identitarianism can be counterproductive. The core controversies are whether the prosecutor should have been more aggressive and whether NY consent law needs to be reformed. It’s not that women need to mobilize against a crisis of sexism and sexual violence.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Universal rights and maximizing the common good are in conflict with the way things have been historically. It’s essential to understand the past because it deeply informs how things are today, but we should always be striving to break free of it and toward universalism. jacobin.com/2026/10/anti...
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Against the Politics of Communal Fear
We can take antisemitism seriously without making communal identity the organizing principle of public life.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Right-wing influencers are mad that an ad that, in typical Republican fashion, encourages the working class to blame poor people for their problems rather the rich, is not also racist.🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Ad About Welfare Fraud Draws MAGA Backlash
Far-right influencers piled on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s former press secretary, over a campaign ad about Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have a different take on this: If something is truly essential infrastructure, meaning there is no practical way to mitigate disruption of that infrastructure, then the government should own it, rather than being held hostage by private enterprise or unions. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...
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Why Carney’s economic overhaul is clashing with Canada’s unions
Unions say proposed changes to Canada's labour laws could weaken workers’ right to strike.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When the US wants to economically isolate a country it can do so through its control of the international payment system. The reason the terrible war in Ukraine is in its 5th year is the US is unwilling and Europe is so weak. If we’re not in it to win it let’s end it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
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Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine
Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NYT is an enemy of the people. Their relentless focus on AI “going rogue” excuses the people who run and fund these companies who’ve openly expressed disdain for democracy and for average people and they will *intentionally* use their machine to advance their vision. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/t...
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Who’s to Blame When A.I. Goes Rogue?
Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We pay for a cadillac healthcare system. Cost should not be a barrier to preventing cancer deaths (but we know it is). Doctors not being able to keep up with the standard of care certainly should not be a barrier (but it apparently is). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/s...
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New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them?
Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our government not sending the FBI to lock the doors of these advanced AI labs is an egregious violation of their duty to the public, but Trump opposing any regulation is arguably the next best thing. The worst is weak regulation that gives a false sense of security. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Trump’s Voluntary A.I. Policing Echoes What Biden Did. But Is It Enough Today?
President Trump’s plan to let A.I. companies police themselves comes amid mounting examples that they are failing to put safeguards on the technology.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So this woman was 18 when she killed someone she thought was trying to steal her boyfriend? That’s bad, but the “worst of the worst”??There are about 20,000 homicides in the US each year and 0.1% are death sentences. This is patently arbitrary and capricious. www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...
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USA: WOMAN FACING EXECUTION FOR CRIME AT AGE 18
Christa Pike, aged 50, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee, USA, on September 30, 2026. She was convicted in 1996 of a 1995 murder committed when she was 18, barely out of a childhood in which sh...
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Aschenbrenner was far from a 24-year-old kid with no trading experience. He is deeply connected to Tech Bros and Wall Street titans financing the AI buildout. His 2024 podcast interview is a terrifying must- listen for its frankness about what the Bros really think. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Troubles at Situational Awareness Point to Record Stock Market Leverage
A meltdown at Situational Awareness, an A.I.-focused investment firm, is raising tough questions about the Wall Street banks that lent billions to the upstart firm.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What this misses is advanced AI will devalue the lives of most humans and we’ll either have a world war or just capitulate to techno-fascist rule. There is a narrow window tor a massive popular uprising to change this outcome and the left will see an influx of support. jacobin.com/2026/09/soci...
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The Dilemmas of Socialist Governance of a Capitalist State
Socialists aren’t anywhere near powerful enough to overcome capitalism, but we are now a force to be reckoned with in mass politics. This opportunity requires wrestling with the challenges of governin...
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A sure sign of bigotry is when one country refers to another country’s culture as shaping their attitudes. People are people and when Tech Bros muse about using advanced AI to destroy the CCP the Chinese believe them. That shapes everything about China’s AI strategy. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/w...
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The Surprising Reasons China Is Skeptical of A.I. Safety Calls
In China, A.I. doomsday warnings can feel distinctly Western or like a ploy to stop Chinese A.I. companies from trying to overtake their U.S. rivals.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Although the corporate media barely noticed, the “interim” president of Venezuela with a gun to her head (we Americans are holding the gun, mind you) gave a speech/hostage video to the UN General Assembly this week—another new low for our War Criminal-In-Chief. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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To the victor belong Venezuela’s spoils: Delcy Rodriguez’s UNGA about-face
Seven years after warning against US regime change, Venezuela’s interim president thanked the man who delivered it.
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m a sucker for a clever EDM mashup. I wish there was an extended version—this song has a lot of possibilities because it was so over-played. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pVBw...
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Chris Isaak vs Nadia Kosasih & More Valentin - Wicked Game (Bootleg)
YouTube video by Mashup Music Show
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are a lot of these “evolution of EDM” compilations but this one tracks well with what I remember liking at the time, starting with Popcorn—when electronic music stopped being a curiosity. (I have a memory hole between 2003-10 when I clearly tuned out for a while.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JI_...
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THE EVOLUTION OF EDM MUSIC (1929 - 2026)
YouTube video by Penguin Music
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BTS @bigtentsocialist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Interesting stuff (caveat: if poll respondents actually voted the way they said they did Trump would’ve lost in ‘24). A majority dislike socialism but like Mamdani. I blame the NYT for socialism being so unpopular in the northeast, though people are also richer there. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Cross-Tabs: September 2026 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate
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