Reposted by DiogenousDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/10/2026For those playing along at home: To give the appearance of action on the impacts of his humiliating blunder on the world stage, the President of the United States is making a humiliating blunder on the world stage by bailing the Russian president out of a humiliating blunder on the world stage. 12635175
Reposted by DiogenousPat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My office has handled a lot of sexual harassment cases. “Her shirt was too tight” “She drank too much” “Why did she put herself in that position” “She was asking for it.” No. No. No. No. It’s not HER job to be on DEFCON 5 at all times. It’s HIS job not to be a predator. ~ Attorney Ryan 15349541308
Reposted by Diogenousrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the thing is that your initiatory society seems like it's discovered something real on the day you actually summon up a devil from the vasty deeps, so the digital eschatology which preceded the invention of the LLM has been rewritten such that the LLM is the object of that prophecy 1623
Diogenous @bpryor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What would it take to nationalize the whole thing? Stroke of a pen? 010
Reposted by Diogenousescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If he ordered the National Guard to start entrenching themselves on the Mall west of the Washington Monument people would rightly and immediately clock it as Bad, and yet this is Trump back-dooring the modern equivalent to flak towers from Nazi Germany into every illegal project and we get shrugs?en.wikipedia.orgFlak tower - Wikipedia 617123
Reposted by DiogenousSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In a 2 party system politics can sometimes be very simple. Saying “don’t vote for the Democrat in the general election” reduces to “I want to help the Republican win.” There’s no other practical interpretation of the sentence. 511231
Reposted by DiogenousDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“The success of AI in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines...but solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal.” - Terence Taoterrytao.wordpress.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in MathematicsI am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have… 0489
Reposted by DiogenousJay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran. 7934581248
Reposted by DiogenousRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago. 153108922682
Reposted by DiogenousAlex @a1extimmons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'm so fucking sick and pissed off that now the Trump administration is hiring "war influencers" because that's how bad the war is going. War influencers didn't exist before but they do now thanks to our two failed fucking tv hosts. 021
Diogenous @bpryor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I seem to remember Hollywood Video being a little more friendly to that too, though I might be thinking of the local video store that had a separate room at the back of the store where your neighbors dad used to go… 110
Diogenous @bpryor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I didn’t know they asked for edits. Now I don’t know what I missed and I’m feeling like my cinephile status is built on flimsy foundations. 100
Reposted by DiogenousKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Also, given the Maduro…episode…this is basically stealing a sovereign asset - a war crime 741401251
Reposted by DiogenousSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵 35903369
Reposted by DiogenousKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I'm no lawyer, but even I can see this: Trump is manipulating Title VI law in obvious ways that should never hold up in court. 054
Diogenous @bpryor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I truly hope that someone is keeping the RFK death count going. It’s too imprecise for Propublica but someone’s gotta do it. 0140
Reposted by DiogenousWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/08/2026How hard is it to say “this is a big tent party and lots of members have views that are not necessarily shared across the party, but we’re all united on one thing: bringing this criminal administration to a close and holding every corrupt official, all the way to the president, fully accountable” 734926
Reposted by DiogenousEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.mail.cyberneticforests.comThe System From NowhereWhen Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i... 13412132
Diogenous @bpryor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I am starting to think that these people just don’t know a whole lot about what’s going on around them. That is, I’m going for the third option: genuinely stupid. 000
Diogenous @bpryor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I take it that we are not in fact ready for the next pandemic? Good to know. 100
Reposted by DiogenousCascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 21/07/2026James Kirchick is involved in many institutions and think tanks. Let’s look at some of them. What do they focus on? What is their political ideology and WHO FUNDS them? 🧵 13513
Reposted by DiogenousNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026This sort of in kind contribution to Ossoff’s nascent presidential campaign is illegal under the Hatch Act 224117
Reposted by DiogenousJust a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 10/07/2026REPUBLICANS just paid a French oil company $2.5 BILLION of YOUR tax dollars... to kill American wind energy. Not to build it.To make it disappear TotalEnergies had two offshore wind farms ready to go. One North Carolina, one New York. Combined they would have powered hundreds of thousands of homes 74842
Diogenous @bpryor.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I’d love to see the total the administration has spent from the pentagon budget for all of the ridiculous fly-bys. Especially the one for Kid Rock. Fuel, personnel, overhead: I want to know. All of them. 000
Reposted by DiogenousPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The Coolidge coin is actually quite a rare collectible precisely because the public didn't like it and the Treasury eventually melted most of them down. As a result, the rule against living persons on coins was instituted soon thereafter. 1143203843
Reposted by DiogenousJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Everyone hated the Coolidge coin at the time. Gerald Ford was President for the Bicentennial and there was no Gerald Ford 200 dollar bill that year because the law that you had to be dead to be on the money was instituted because of the Coolidge coin. I’m Canadian and I know more than Bessent 3363
Reposted by DiogenousLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026One reason people would be surprised to hear that Trump has left Iran’s “military alone” is that earlier this month Trump said he had “completely destroyed Iran’s army,” and that “every single ship they had is resting underwater at the bottom of the sea.” 29578155
Reposted by DiogenousSpencer Koelle @spencerkoelle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself. 12054111162
Diogenous @bpryor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Yeah I do but the downside was you couldn’t forward through commercials. Wait…. 010
Reposted by DiogenousAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026We need to give serious thought to how else to take advantage of Vance's god-tier ability to repel all humans. 34961149
Reposted by DiogenousKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/04/2026A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power. 132101351805
Reposted by DiogenousTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Well, neither have made a good album since 2016, if that helps your argument 5292666217
Reposted by DiogenousW.M. @minuteman04.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Reports make it fairly clear that ICE detention facilities are worse than most US prisons. And for the most part they're crammed full of people who haven't been convicted of any crime. 26867322461
Reposted by DiogenousBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 08/04/2026All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This….. 1636297847428
Reposted by DiogenousMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office 11875911747
Reposted by DiogenousDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 05/04/202625th Amendment. Articles of Impeachment. Now. What the hell else do you gutless, partisan fools need to see happen? What elze does he need to say? What else? 29866681532
Reposted by DiogenousBoomer - Release the Tapes @boomer1956.bsky.social · 28/03/2026My niece tried to get her new “real ID” using her current drivers license but they wouldn’t allow it. Demanded a passport, which hers has expired. It’s a trial run, folks … for MidTerms. 38549411655
Reposted by DiogenousKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left 22178771469
Reposted by Diogenousderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58 442394886952
Reposted by DiogenousThe Onion @theonion.com · 08/03/2026ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural theonion.comICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood MuralMINNEAPOLIS—Bleeding profusely as he radioed for backup against the uncooperative crowd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Ken Fischer was reportedly injured Tuesday after making repeated atte... 162613343
Reposted by DiogenousChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal. 240107473507
Reposted by DiogenousBlake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Whatever happens with this conflict in the next 5 years, which will surely be very bad, we and our children also have to look forward to the consequences in 20-30 years. There’s no way the US doesn’t end up paying a tab beyond the initial military losses and financial costs for this. 2233
Reposted by Diogenoussher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote. 645253958361
Reposted by DiogenousRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Cartoon by Nick Anderson 14552441423
Reposted by Diogenousnadinbrzezinski.bsky.social @nadinbrzezinski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison 711203267481