Reposted by Mike BogaczEric Harris Bernstein @ehbinmn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They started texting with a 16-year-old. After two years, they offered to sell him a gun. They consider that "stopping a terrorist attack." And they are calling it heroic. What an absolute embarrassment. 532018514
Reposted by Mike BogaczLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd is currently being enthusiastically dunked on by western Discourse Guardians for the supposed incoherence of this post & I gotta say the irony metre jst exploded cos Mohammed wrote an entire book addressing exactly the rhetorical policing of Palestinian resistance 10382113
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026you ever actually tried to mail a cat to abu dhabi? it's fucking impossible 010
Reposted by Mike Bogaczjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 1087473993
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026one of the more insidious features of liberal "democracy" is how you can always scapegoat the people for the sins of the ruling class 110
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A flavor of post I see a lot is "I went to Twitter and it's terrible now." Regardless of the precise level of degradation of the website, it is obviously possible to go to the "for you" page and see something awful. This may not be news, but it's obviously true 100
Reposted by Mike BogaczFWP_Podcast @disillusionedhog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Yeah the Palestinians have been under occupation for 70+ years and are now getting exterminated, but have you considered MY Jewish feelings?" - My "leftist" timeline for the last 24 hours. We are discussing 20th century bigotries amidst 21st century holocausts. 712628
Reposted by Mike BogaczThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko. 1764912488
Reposted by Mike BogaczJason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid 133198730
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026feels absurd to me how often the covid doomers outright lie in ways that are easy to disprove 100
Reposted by Mike BogaczDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460691070
Reposted by Mike BogaczLady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I honestly can’t get over this. He disclosed to chat GPT that he had bipolar disorder THEN chat GPT introduced religious aspects to their discussion. The civil complaint alleges that chat GPT is targeting delusional content when it learns a person is delusional because it increases interaction. 213653
Reposted by Mike BogaczJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey everyone when someone says something like “I won’t hire you if you bring iced coffee to a job interview!” you can just like, ignore that person. 3999363
Reposted by Mike Bogaczneuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026who is "we"? I understand people dislike Zeteo, but Costs of War isn't an Assadist project, and frankly I do think we should seriously consider the deaths that result from an empire with near totalizing power treating an entire region as a playground for murder as being that empire's responsibility. 1315
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The thing is that if you actively choose to continually renew your place as effective ruler of the world, you are going to receive "credit" for what happens under your watch even if you don't directly pull all the strings 110
Reposted by Mike BogaczNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed. 232069939
Reposted by Mike BogaczMatt the Dad Dude @undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · 20/09/2026“Republicans are murdering pregnant women” is actually probably a smart thing for all democrats to start talking about 111069201
Reposted by Mike Bogaczjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 19/09/2026I just do not understand the propagation of LLMs as analysis tools in domains where stochastic variation can have life or death consequences 2327
Reposted by Mike BogaczHelen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life 397130681225
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026this is the american equivalent to being raised by holly hunter's commune from top of the lake 000
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026one of the funnier things about the whole macklemore thing is that i had previously seen the photo from 2014 and just assumed he might be dumb or imperfect or whatever, but a bunch of zionists pushing the issue led me to learn that was not the case; even the ADL defended him! the ADL! 000
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026agree with the overall sentiment here, but it's important to note that they are not trying to "win anyone over" because they are fascists 000
Reposted by Mike BogaczUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 14/09/2026*uncommonly loud clown nose honking noise* 131266407
Reposted by Mike Bogaczmike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are 3438081136
Reposted by Mike BogaczGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to loseautonomy.substack.comThis Is Not A Love SongExplaining the “maximalism” of trans rights 502030544
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think the reason that no one is saying the highlighted thing is not borne out of some sort of cowardice or perfidy but rather that there is no such thing as an "inherently morally bad" technology 100
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026start your children with that and work their way up to this 000
Reposted by Mike BogaczGary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Now this is a perfect 9/11 story: of romance and heroism starring a Rhodesian mercenary, one of the worst kinds of people the 20th century produced, and the article just... glides past the fact he was passionately for the same flag as Dylann Roof. Now that's America. 412626
Reposted by Mike BogaczChris @asmarcd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united. 393572582
Reposted by Mike BogaczKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 09/09/2026I still think the biggest threats from software automation have very mundane human origins, and the claims of looming superintelligence both misrepresent the tech's capabilities for marketing purposes and to provide ethical distance for company responsibilityarstechnica.comUnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesFor the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug. 422670
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026feels absolutely crazy-making the degree to which certain folks raise the spectre of a largely made-up "antisemitism on the left" when there's no shortage of this shit out there these days 100
Reposted by Mike BogaczMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored." 3922941090
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026possibly the most empty threat in the history of threats 000
Reposted by Mike BogaczEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026OpenAI claimed their model had a breakthrough in a longstanding mathematical problem, but this scientist says that they basically stole his work 9375134
Reposted by Mike BogaczSaganomics @saganomics.bsky.social · 06/09/2026When my wife’s Meta algorithms sniffed out that she’s pregnant a bunch of medical crankery started aggressively filing into her Facebook and Instagram feeds. “MAHA moms” happen because there is a lot of money being spent strategically preying on women going through a stressful experience. 271651277
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Bluesky: you’re cooking your brain if you stay on twitter! Also Bluesky: let me QT this post from a guy from the manhattan institute to dunk on a leftist 250
Reposted by Mike BogaczChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026First Refofmed sequel where they solve Climate Change with Claude. 1138930
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wernher von Braun’s involvement with the Nazis seems to be of great concern to people who are fucking insufferable. 060
Mike Bogacz @bikemogacz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026first they came for the machines, and i thought hey that's pretty cool, they're just machines and are not anything like people or any other living beings fin 010
