Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 8hGeneral PSA on best practices for product companies that email their customers: 1. Don’t send from a noreply@ address; make it your support address so people can just hit Reply. Be a human. 2. For the love of all that is good, don’t include the words “No Reply” in the sender of the email! 000
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 22hI don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re having serious persistent anxiety about hitting your AI model usage quotas, you need to go outside, breathe the air and get a coffee or something. That is not healthy, and you are falling down a hole. Friends can help. 001
Reposted by Bradford FultsFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend. 20643151105
Reposted by Bradford FultsAmy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i’m not clicking and you shouldn’t either i repost bc it’s such a great example for a little critical reading (again, not of the piece): why is this outlet publishing this take? it’s a BUSINESS paper actual psych experts do NOT believe this. this is pandering to their audience. 1284
Reposted by Bradford FultsOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026More of Dr. South's research: "A 1-SD increase in tree cover was associated with a 9% reduction...Simulated achievement of 40% baseline tree cover was associated with reductions in firearm violence, with the largest reductions in highly-deprived neighborhoods." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comNeighborhood segregation, tree cover and firearm violence in 6 U.S. cities, 2015–2020Neighborhood segregation by race and income is a structural determinant of firearm violence. Addressing green space deficits in segregated neighborhoo… 310410
Reposted by Bradford FultsJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...juliaserano.medium.comOn Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Adsand more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses 231224514
Reposted by Bradford Fults404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op... 181375745
Reposted by Bradford FultsProPublica @propublica.org · 17/09/2026When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)propublica.orgInside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for TreatmentsWhen companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. 36649374
Reposted by Bradford Fults404 Media @404media.co · 09/09/2026Lindsey Isaacs was falsely arrested and imprisoned after authorities used Flock’s system to pull over the wrong person in a hit-and-run that killed three people. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social spoke to Lindsey and her lawyer about the ordeal. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc_6... 10225741345
Reposted by Bradford Fults404 Media @404media.co · 06/09/2026The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse. www.404media.co/florida-depu...404media.coFlorida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi SaluteThe deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse. 7250100
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 29/08/2026RIP real human voice in marketing and news. Let me tell you why that matters. It’s not just a change in aesthetics. The loss of content is the loss of accountability. 🙄😒 000
Reposted by Bradford FultsThe Onion @theonion.com · 26/08/2026Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings 454774964
Reposted by Bradford Fults404 Media @404media.co · 23/08/2026ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...404media.co‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion LawsuitChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. 620451
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 24/08/2026This is wild: restofworld.org/2026/mexico-se…restofworld.orgA Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. borderGrupo Seguritech quietly built a $1.27 billion surveillance empire. Now it's expanding into the U.S. and across Latin America. 000
Reposted by Bradford FultsDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/08/2026I wonder if Chinese officials also have meetings debating which highly efficient energy infastructure technology options are unacceptable on account of being too woke and gay. 1144983954
Reposted by Bradford FultsCorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 06/08/2026If you’ve never watched the Savannah Bananas, you’re missing something special! ⚾🍌 Incredible athleticism. Spectacular trick plays. Music, dancing & nonstop energy. Every game is entertainment from first pitch to the final out. ❤️⚾ #SavannahBananas #BananaBall #BaseBall #SheShed 35260871241
Reposted by Bradford FultsStephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠 2442813582
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 05/08/2026How many bytes do we just send around the Internet, over and over again for basically no reason? Every deploy that downloads & installs NodeJS. Every unchanged asset loaded for the thousandth time while checking your email. And who pays for all of it? Seems pretty wild. 000
Reposted by Bradford FultsJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...404media.co‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co... 151621836
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 28/07/2026@bsky.app How many times are y’all going to ask me to share my age range? Texas. iPhone 17 Pro. iOS 26.5.2 000
Reposted by Bradford FultsJoe Public 🍁 @joepublic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The biggest threat to aviation safety in the u.s. is air traffic control. They’re short-staffed, overworked, and working with outdated technology and bad culture has developed. viewfromthewing.com/america-keep...viewfromthewing.comAmerica Keeps Throwing Billions At Broken Air Traffic Control — Canada Built A Better System 30 Years AgoThe U.S. keeps pouring billions into FAA-run air traffic control while staffing, technology, and accountability lag. Canada’s nonprofit NAV CANADA model shows a better path: separate regulator from op... 0757252
Reposted by Bradford FultsBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.ms.nowSecret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate raceRep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her. 32881933339
Reposted by Bradford FultsMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20378813124813
Reposted by Bradford FultsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 21/07/2026Today I asked if any Congressmember on @energycommerce.bsky.social would want to live next to a data center. The silence in the hearing room reflected the realities of working people across the country. We must address the real, dangerous health impacts of data centers on our communities. 371703521
Reposted by Bradford FultsTrevor J. Adams @trevorjadams.bsky.social · 18/07/2026“Narcissists' desire for attention, affirmation and control makes them more likely to favour in-person work because it ‘offers richer channels for controlling and commanding reverence from employees.’”cbc.caBoss wants you back in the office full time? New research suggests there may be personal motives behind it | CBC NewsAs more employees are being ordered back into the office full time, new research suggests the rationale may be more about bosses' desire for power and status than productivity. 1142394766
Reposted by Bradford FultsJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology. 46110863239
Reposted by Bradford FultsMarie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money." 299127333823
Reposted by Bradford FultsReuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm 15236051946
Reposted by Bradford FultsMark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Guy on the radio earlier saying we should all save our shower water and use that to flush the toilet. Around 60 companies are responsible for 80% of all global carbon emissions; telling us as individuals to do something without addressing that is just gaslighting and guilt tripping. 422115122786
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 03/07/2026Can I run an LLM model locally? llmrun.devllmrun.devCan I Run This LLM? Local AI Hardware CheckerFind out which AI models you can run locally. Check GPU compatibility, VRAM requirements, quantization options, and expected performance. 000
Reposted by Bradford FultsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...nytimes.comImmigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down 14329632045
Reposted by Bradford FultsMother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/07/2026The largest part of the Supreme Court's 194-page decision on birthright citizenship is Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent. To Thomas, the 14th Amendment applied only to the freed people after the Civil War. In a concurrence, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes on Justice Thomas. 33955532061
Reposted by Bradford FultsJason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 30/06/2026You know you should be working on Marketing, not features. You build new features anyway because (a) it's fun and (b) you know how. Whereas the business usually needs you to learn marketing and get another customer today.longform.asmartbear.comPut down the compiler until you learn why they’re not buyingTechnical founders, step away from the code. Gather insights from non-buyers, rather than just adding more features. 4123
Reposted by Bradford FultsJason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 24/06/2026With AI you can make products no one wants faster than ever! 5162
Reposted by Bradford FultsProPublica @propublica.org · 25/06/2026UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)propublica.orgHow UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at RiskUnited used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due... 47977529
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 21/06/2026www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet…terrygodier.comThe Last Quiet ThingYour possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking. 010
Reposted by Bradford FultsTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20/06/2026To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...snyder.substack.comCapitulation DayThe dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery 13912288
Reposted by Bradford Fults404 Media @404media.co · 20/06/2026The known cases of police stalking are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse, because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both. www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...404media.coCops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk PeopleThere have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people. 2296124
Reposted by Bradford FultsProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2026Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix this town’s housing crisis. To this day, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. A $590,000 deposit for the printer was forfeited. And the more reporter Molly Parker asked questions, the weirder things got: propub.li/4nlU1VD 26798313
Reposted by Bradford Fultsjacobian @jacobian.org · 17/06/2026Some thoughts on eating meat, which isn’t really about eating meat. jacobian.org/2026/jun/16/...jacobian.orgThis isn't a post about eating meat - Jacob Kaplan-MossNotes about eating animals, morality, harm reduction — but this isn’t about any of that, not really. 694
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 17/06/2026I’m sad and shaken to hear of Josh’s death. I will always be appreciative of the big role he played in my career at OIB/Return Path and connecting me and many others to community in the Austin tech scene. My sincerest condolences go to Amy, their kids, and Josh’s current and past teams. 😢 000
Reposted by Bradford FultsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.hollywoodreporter.comA Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First TargetThe billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved. 8844171214
Bradford Fults @bradfordfults.com · 08/06/2026“AI does not own outcomes. The engineer whose name is on the pull request owns the outcome, regardless of how much of the code an AI wrote. “Reducing the team does not reduce the number of things that can go wrong. It reduces the number of people available to own them.” codegood.co/writing/ai-shr…codegood.coAI Shrinks the Team, Not the Problem, CodeGoodAI replaces capability, not accountability. A team of 10 producing the output of 30 has tripled its coordination burden per person. The headcount drops. The problem does not. 000
Reposted by Bradford FultsBonsai Search @bonsai.io · 05/06/2026Max (@max.io) walks us through using agentic retrieval to improve search results relevancy via SID. Next-level search quality! bonsai.io/blog/agent-s...bonsai.ioAgentic Search Models with OpenSearch and ElasticsearchWe introduce agentic tool-based retreival models, and show how they are shaping the future of search quality. 033
Reposted by Bradford FultsLily Baker @lilybaker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The new bluesky account wide adult content label thing is horrendous, indiscriminately hiding all posts from a person just bc they've posted adult content - they need to reverse this so badly 10895313
Reposted by Bradford FultsBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/05/2026“If we are going to do a third Reconstruction we need politicians who conceive of themselves as working on behalf of a constituency, rather than would-be-saviors…And, like the people of Minnesota, we need to do the work to be that constituency…” www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...liberalcurrents.comAOC for PresidentWhether or not she runs, Ocasio-Cortez is invoking a feminist politics that Democrats should adopt if they are serious about defeating fascism. 733133581
Reposted by Bradford Fultsjenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026“study of around 8,000 respondents concludes that women’s lower uptake of generative AI tools has little to do w/ skills or access. Instead, it is driven largely by how women perceive the broader societal risks associated w/ the new technology.”🧪 @josiecox.bsky.social 36762239
Reposted by Bradford FultsJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 27/05/2026since apparently JKR is spouting nonsense about "gametes" again, here is my in depth primer on why anti-trans groups have become so obsessed with gametes & why the actual science does not support their claims (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...juliaserano.medium.comWhy Are “Gender Critical” Activists So Fond of Gametes?plus my new video “Trans People and Biological Sex: What the Science Says” 17774309