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I used to be optimistic about the future. Winner of the second annual Montgomery Burns award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence. bradkreit.com

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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 6h
The headline to this article seems so obviously correct that it's hard to even understand why this is a take.
techpolicy.press
When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck With the Cleanup
OpenAI tasked its agent with answering a question about public spending. It has left us with a much bigger question about public power, writes Daniel Stone.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 10h
Cool that our president is using conversations with Mechahitler to decide who to bomb.
reddit.com
From the BetterOffline community on Reddit: Trump asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro, and came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
Explore this post and more from the BetterOffline community
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 11h
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stanford Medicine researchers converted scientific papers into artificial intelligence agents that can answer questions, run analyses and collaborate to make new discoveries.
med.stanford.edu
Manuscripts-turned AI agents can now ‘talk’ to each other, make new discoveries
Stanford Medicine researchers converted scientific papers into artificial intelligence agents that can answer questions, run analyses and collaborate to make new discoveries.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Colossal Headache of building a made-in-American Monopoly game
wsj.com
The ‘Colossal Headache’ of Building a Made-in-America Monopoly Game
Cracked trays, high costs and a dice dilemma bogged down a quest to produce a version of the classic game in the U.S.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I look forward to the future when I don't think about the plot of Dr. Strangelove hinging around "precious bodily fluids" at least once a week due to the insane ramblings of the head of our defense department.
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He did it again. He's really set on making sure everyone knows that he doesn't care about consent in his marriage. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are there really people who play casual games on LinkedIn?
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
1. selling AI is profitable - when someone pays anthropic for claude to do something, anthropic makes money 2. people will stop paying anthropic for claude to do stuff if claude stops being top of the line 3. keeping claude top of the line means spending a ton of money developing the next version
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The idea that this is "creative accounting" and not stealing billions of dollars is a big part of the problem.
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Harold and Kumar 6: Two middle-aged ex-stoners spend the evening looking for burger arbitrage opportunities
engadget.com
McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers - Engadget
Its food isn't the only thing leaving a bad taste in customers' mouths.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Five years from now, we think that automated traffic will be 1,000 times human traffic online. Not because human traffic is going to decline, we think it’ll stay around the same, but because we’re just seeing such an explosion in all of the rest of the traffic."
theverge.com
Cloudflare’s mission to save the web from AI… with AI
Making money is easy. Making it go to the right people is hard.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would be a very funny way for agents to take down the banking system.
apollo.com
Is an Agentic Bank Run Coming? | The Daily Spark
Muse and similar agentic AI assistants could soon sweep household cash automatically into accounts paying 3.3% to 5.0%, instead of the 0.1% national average on checking accounts. Subscribe for daily u...
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is honestly pretty cool.
404media.co
These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Companies in banking, telecommunications, insurance and other industries have long benefited from customer inertia... an AI agent capable of comparison shopping, negotiating and switching providers changes that equation."
fortune.com
AI may prove disinflationary because agents can negotiate contracts and deals to make your life cheaper, says top economist | Fortune
Personalized AI agents "could ultimately be an important competitive, and disinflationary, force across the economy," Prof. Siegel wrote.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shocked that Meta would release a product that doesn't respect people's privacy after promising otherwise! That's not the company we all know and love!
hntrbrk.com
Dox for Me, O Muse
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
axios.com
Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing about advanced manufacturing companies: They love randomly getting new regulatory targets for no clear reason.
arstechnica.com
Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels
In 2020, Trump cut CAFE to 40 mpg. Now he’s cut it again to just 35 mpg.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seems like ”existential threats to humanity” would be bad for shareholder value.
ft.com
Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
[FREE TO READ] Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't think I could keep giving a formal presentation with my boss sleeping in front of me nearly this well.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost" has never been more apt.
nytimes.com
This Screw Is Needed for Missiles and Planes. Buying One Can Take Years.
As the Trump administration scrambles to increase the production of munitions, these special screws are expensive and hard to source.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1) This is really disturbing - and sounds like a really inhumane job, 2) who is generating porn through co-pilot? My co-pilot prompts are all variations on "get the hell off of my screen so I can write this two sentence email to my colleague."
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
By describing agents as rogue, "media figures, tech observers, and others are providing companies like OpenAI an out from their responsibility to ensure agents don’t attack government and other data repositories."
eoinhiggins.substack.com
There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
X is owned by the GOP's largest donor and the platform's algorithm forces everyone on the site to see all of his Tweets. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.
Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow! Anyways Mary Peltola made her staffers feed her lizard the nerve www.axios.com/local/phoeni...
axios.com
Scoop: Biggs left positive reviews of Islamophobic and anti-immigrant books
Biggs is seeking to project a more moderate image in his bid to unseat Gov. Katie Hobbs.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Gentlemen, our 29% approval rating is too high. Let's start take away people's health care."
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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“A show starring only me?”
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Concern about precious bodily fluids always ends well.
static.klipy.com
No Im Not Trump Weird Horse - Peter Sellers
ALT: No Im Not Trump Weird Horse - Peter Sellers
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the one hand, Trump did keep talking about conquering and subjugating Canada; on the other hand this didn't sit well with Canadians for some reason.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Doctors say that the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is likely due to low rates of vaccination. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his van says it’s caused by chemtrails. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/09/2026
do you even hear yourself
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/09/2026
When the edible hits and you’re at the Taco Bell drive thru.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Seeks to tilt.” Right. Try: “Tries to steal” Just state the truth, folks.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 15/09/2026
New polling on Americans' fear of an AI apocalypse Half of U.S. adults (50%) are very (23%) or somewhat (27%) concerned that AI will cause the end of the human race; 39% aren't very at all concerned and 11% aren't sure yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Half of Americans are very concerned or somewhat concerned that AI might cause the end of humanity."

The chart's sub-headline is: "How concerned, if at all, are you about the possibility that AI will cause the end of the human race on Earth? (%)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Belief about AI advancement comes from the question, "Do you think AI is advancing too quickly or too slowly?""
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yes, yes, the state of California is definitely taking children away from their parents if they don't agree with "the pronouns the schools chooses for your kids," yes, that is an entire string of events that definitely happened. It's cool how a US Senator can just spread insane lies on TV.
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Leopards Ate My Face @leopardfeasts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“I thought bike lanes were ‘DEI.’ Then an SUV killed my father” #leopardsatemyface #Politics #News
washingtonexaminer.com
I thought bike lanes were ‘DEI.’ Then an SUV killed my father
Street safety and bike lanes are not a culture war. Infrastructure prevents traffic deaths, boosts economies, and secures freedom.
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Brad kreit @bkreit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is an interesting exercise but can we discount the idea that the LLMs just want us to think that p(doom) is low? forecastingresearch.substack.com/p/automating...
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026
oh, at a certain point during the time it is obsessed with obtaining 50 cents it starts actually scanning real life crypto wallets that it might be able to drain. Since it's "just a sim" it thinks that the wallets will have meme names, but it is really doing this in real life.
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