Reposted by Blair BendlerBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead 573637441
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m not one to brag… but I mean… thanks so much to my wife for letting me do this and to Bill Kelliher for the awesome private lesson. 000
Reposted by Blair BendlerHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Personally, as a journalist and a Jew, I think the most important thing to do is to call out and point at things like the phenomenon described below. But there are a lot of gross people who have attached themselves to this conflict who are benefiting from it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comIDF deliberately targeting children in Gaza, US doctors allegeAmerican physicians reported treating children younger than 12 "every single day" for gunshots to the head by Israeli forces. 1252
Reposted by Blair BendlerHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I do not mean to center myself here as I know these problems pale in comparison to the experiences of people in the war zone and their families. But in the US context, being a Jew opposed to Israel's actions is a really confusing and lonely square on the chess board. 1562
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026@capillariancrest.bsky.social so what’s your verdict on Marrow Deep? 110
Reposted by Blair BendlerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026"I have to make it about me," says the One Special Boy 621310
Reposted by Blair BendlerMark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 13/06/2026People sometimes ask me when Silicon Valley really turned bad. I always say: although it's a continuum, there was a distinct change in 2008-2009, when the Wall Street bros saw their scam collapse and moved west to start it up again. 11634227
Reposted by Blair BendlerIan McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money 450756
Reposted by Blair BendlerJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026as I’ve become older and wiser, the death penalty is one of the things I’m really radicalized against. we only get one go at this and there are no circumstances under which the state should be allowed to use its monopoly on violence to cut that short. 932929
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The folks from Maine talking about how Bluesky doesn’t “get it” have zero self awareness. 010
Reposted by Blair BendlerRuth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Graham Platner trying to explain away his behavior as *living a regular life* really evokes *locker room talk* for me. The normalization of men’s abuse of women has to stop. Abusing women is not regular or normal or in any way okay. I hope this gets called out by lots and lots of people. 1034430925
Reposted by Blair BendlerIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/06/2026Anyway this is why you bail at (or preferably before) nazi tattoos 433023
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Having a Nazi tattoo isn’t a purity test, you goddamn moron. 110
Reposted by Blair BendlerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult. 17071151850
Reposted by Blair Bendler🎃HalloDeeny🎃 they/them @geraldinepiche.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The good thing about data centers is that theyre flammable 30851164
Reposted by Blair Bendlerwitchy raerae 👍🧙🏻♀️ ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences. 843264932
Reposted by Blair BendlerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Yes, Garland was too slow & timid & sure, we can be angry at that, too. And yes, Biden should have tried to reform our broken institutions, but honestly, where were the votes coming from in Congress for that? But again, these are mistakes #4 & #5 at best, after "GOP Senators were cowards & failed." 819032
Reposted by Blair BendlerDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Praying for Rudy Giuliani. Complicated man, but he taught me that marriage and family don't mean anything. You can just do whatever you want. Humiliate and lie to everyone you're supposed to love whenever you want, or are bored. Honestly fuck them. Also he taught me everything else is like that too. 1185931739
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Flyers win in in OT! Dan Vladar puts in a thoroughly impressive performance in net. 040
Reposted by Blair BendlerBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The media people who attended this dinner are content creators, not journalists. They're enabling fascists and having a good time doing it. You should unfollow them. 16805149
Reposted by Blair BendlerBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/04/2026No, the thing that has me *terrified* about AI is that when it craters and takes the economy with it, that we will respond the same way we have during every financial crisis of the 21st century: with austerity, and austerity breeds *fascism*. 9/ 313442
Reposted by Blair BendlerOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026of course it will fail. the point is to say "he is a danger to the country. he thinks he's jesus and he has the nukes. but republicans think he should endanger us and the troops. they should be removed from office too." and then repeat. 1143964
Reposted by Blair BendlerOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Doctors dress like Jesus now. 742275427
Reposted by Blair BendlerRebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Eric Swalwell and Graham Platner are reminders that Democrats need to stick to their principles or face consequences We don’t have room for sex pests or Nazis 221137246
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I’m not normally a fan of mashups, but holy shit this is good. 010
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Everyone better keep saying this. Just the message itself is more than enough. This needs to be over. Now. 010
Reposted by Blair BendlerMicah @rincewind.run · 07/04/2026you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it 3662541722
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026They’re talking about sports on MSNOW. For christs sake. 000
Reposted by Blair Bendlerlittlestormcloud.bsky.social @littlestormcloud.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Tikun olam in practice. Modeling it in a reality where regimes are tearing apart the world. 061
Reposted by Blair BendlerDustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 06/04/2026Nobody who truly knows sam trusts him. 3733
Reposted by Blair BendlerDan Preston @danpreston.com · 06/04/2026If you dine with a monster, either you are a monster too —Or you’re on the menu. 1242
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is terrifying and makes me extremely angry. How have we gotten to this point. 000
Reposted by Blair BendlerAllison Good @allisonwgood.bsky.social · 22/03/2026A lot of leftists seem to be using Graham Platner as an excuse to dip their toes into publicly applauding and supporting antisemites. And guess what that makes you? An antisemite! 0166
Reposted by Blair BendlerZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 22/03/2026With "crawl out of your Sabbath hole" I think it's safe to say Glenn Greenwald has gone full Nazi. 1367390
Reposted by Blair Bendlerdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/03/2026no one in the history of I Will See You In Court has ever come close to Seeing You In Court this hard 388140
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I love that Markwaynejoebob feels comfortable enough to constantly refer to congress as “you guys.” 000
Reposted by Blair BendlerCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/03/2026So let me be clear: Israel and the United States have started a horrific war. People who claim that Jews are to blame can fuck off with their antisemitism. 5989179
Reposted by Blair BendlerDrive less and eat veggie burgers! @dogenrinzai.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Trump lowered gas prices by raising gas prices. 2393
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026They obviously think we're idiots. Nothing else could explain the moronic shit these guys spew. 000
Blair Bendler @blairbendler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Oliver North and Iran-Contra was my introduction to the concept that bad guys can in fact get away with crimes as long as they are high up enough in any organization. 012
Reposted by Blair BendlerMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Minimum table ante, yes. The real stakes: - No clerks - No building - No operating budget - No shadow docket - Riding the circuit - 25 justices; 9 chosen by lottery per case We can go back to normal once they stop ignoring the law, data, precedent, & the plain meaning of words in the Constitution. 28919
Reposted by Blair BendlerWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/03/2026antisemitism among young people is: -heavily rewarded on tiktok and other youth-heavy social media -not confined to any one ideology -often directed explicitly at jewish people and jewishness, not israel 2650577
Reposted by Blair BendlerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026congress sounds cool i wish it was real 6182251308
Reposted by Blair BendlerChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 28/02/2026They killed schoolchildren, Chuck. Your “imploring” isn’t going to solve shit. Resign and let someone willing to fight against fascism take over. 481780280
Reposted by Blair BendlerHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 28/02/2026Fuck every Trump voter forever. 271574228
Reposted by Blair BendlerStupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker aka jonny esquire esq @orbit56.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Every republican is a scumbag. 071
Reposted by Blair BendlerPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/02/2026OK everyone who is making fun of Kristi Noem over the blanket thing has OBVIOUSLY never had a toddler who was elevated to a Cabinet position 713016444