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Bruce Wilson

@brucewilson.bsky.social
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Studying, writing on, & warning about the Christian Supremacist right since 2004. Before that, in late 90s I warned of global warming. Now, I'm hunkering down to weather the storm, & raising giant isopods in my basement, for fun and profit.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h
Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.
theguardian.com
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 11h
Excellent. Autonomous planting & weeding are among the tasks "AI" is great at. Writing legal briefs or buying groceries, not so much.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 12h
I'm likely not blind today b/c I have health care that provided laser surgery to fix the tears in my retinas (2nd 1 developed 2 years after the first.)
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 12h
Boosted for the vivid imagery.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 13h
This is indeed remarkable. It also raises the question, if James Talarico can utterly reject the GOP's scaremongering fascist anti-immigrant framing & successfully promote "immigration is good for America", why can't he reject anti-trans scaremongering too?
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 14h
1,200 reported incidents of sexual assault, dating & domestic violence, and stalking lead to 7 expulsions or dismissals. Cornell has positioned itself as higher ed's industry leader in teaching rape culture to America's future male economic elites. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 14h
OK, so Democrats need to push the frame that Trump's & the GOP's incompetence, corruption, over-spending, & war-making have permanently reduced American affluence. Republicans haven't just run the car into a ditch -> they've done that AND then doused it with gasoline & set it on fire.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h
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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h
It is clear that Democrats are set to sweep control of Congress in free and fair elections. It is also clear that Trump and the GOP are working to make sure the elections are not free and fair. I founded Democracy Docket to help you stay informed to fight back. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 14h
Questionably groomed, angry neckbeard bro persecutes traumatized rape victim.
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In other words, satisfactory product performance.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 29/09/2026
Although additional details of the system were not revealed at trial, subsequent reporting by 404 Media revealed that Schott most likely was identified by a federal predictive policing unit working out of a so-called fusion center in Laredo that used artificial intelligence to identify him as a likely criminal.

“Homeland Security, DEA, everybody’s there,” Dep. Joel Babb, who pulled Schott over, said in a pre-trial deposition. “And they have a lot bigger toys than a license plate reader.”

fter receiving the WhatsApp message, Babb waited for Schott’s truck to appear, eventually pulling him over for crossing the yellow shoulder line. Schott’s dashboard camera showed him staying inside his lane and the deputy later admitted it was just a pretext to look inside the vehicle.

“The beautiful thing about the Texas traffic code is there’s thousands of things you can stop a vehicle for,” he later testified.After detaining Schott for more than an hour, and doing more than $7,000-worth of damage to his truck during their search, Bexar deputies’ interrogation and search turned up nothing. Yet Molina wrote on his report that they had seen specks of marijuana leaves. If so, nothing was ever collected or tested or mentioned on any body camera footage, Molina later conceded.The interdiction team was so unsuccessful that Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar had joked about it. While the deputies made hundreds of stops, “I would rib them about not being very effective at drug interdiction, not finding drugs very often,” he said in a deposition.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All That is Solid Melts Into Slop
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love it!! 🤣😂🤣
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We absolutely, positively want a delusional, psychotic and psycopathic president talking about taking cities out with nuclear weapons. It’s all good, right? Nothing to see here, media?
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where could these men have gotten such a sense of entitlement about touching women?
youtube.com
Trump On Tape: I Grab Women "By The Pu**y”
YouTube video by TDC
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense
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EnchanTRIS✨✨✨ @myobsexssions.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Just applied to be a poll worker for Election Day. I know they’re planning to invalidate votes. And threaten ppl. Gonna put my Spanish skills to use and try to help the elderly. Just doing my part to try to help keep this damn country from eating itself alive.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rapper Macklemore is launching a "Free Palestine" tour, days after being dropped from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour following pro-Palestinian comments he made onstage earlier this month.
bbc.com
Rapper Macklemore announces 'Free Palestine' tour after Ed Sheeran fallout
Proceeds from the tour, which begins in Dublin next month, will go to organisations supporting Palestinians, he says.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026
In this case there's no reputational harm because everyone knows that Gemini is literally a bullshit machine—but if we allow these systems to serve as epistemic grounding, what are the remedies in cases where reputations are actually made or broken?
thebullshitmachines.com
Lesson 2: The Nature of Bullshit
This lesson explores philosopher Harry Frankfurt's notion of bullshit, and explains why LLMs are, by his definition, bullshit machines.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most Cory Doctorow threads are amazing, but this one truly stands out.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 28/09/2026
More evidence of the hidden ways in which LLMs are powered by (likely exploited and poorly paid) humans
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This must be challenged with extreme prejudice. The nation is watching.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2026
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views. www.wired.com/story/these-...
wired.com
These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 28/09/2026
🚨Francesca Albanese Joins @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for a Live Town Hall Q&A. The UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine takes your questions. Join us on Monday (September 28) at 4pm ET (1pm PT / 9pm BST.) Zeteo’s paid subscribers can register here: zeteo.com/p/today-4pm-...
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mamdani's winning formula is to make myriad, tangible quality of life improvements for the people of NYC.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And, Mr. Huang, if it's not solvable then much of your business model *goes down the drain*, doesn't it. Interesting that you hadn't considered this before these words came tumbling out your mouth.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
M.A.D. ("Make America Dumber"). Learning two or more languages gives lifelong advantages to children.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I looked... only one small donation in the past week.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes. "Rogue" and "autonomous" are bullshit weasel terms used to obfusticate the real human culpability for these crimes.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The contrition tango.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For its next act, global warming will bring us a real life sharknado!
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WTF
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is about so much more than the (semi) official death toll. Or even the hundreds of thousands who have been wounded. The health of the whole population has been compromised by famine, disease, lack of sanitation & clean water, exposure to the elements, insects...
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Abood's brother Hammad is one of the relatively few surviving Gaza health care workers (so many have been murdered over the past 3 years.)
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