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Brent Amos

@bsamos42.bsky.social
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Father, husband, banker. Happy in California with our kids and pets.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 23h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Monday is going to be an interesting day in the markets. Source: www.cnbc.com/2026/09/26/1...
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is such a weak and fragile god who needs a political party, a president, a Supreme Court, and a nation to defend them and fight their battles for them. God does not need your defense. The poor, the hungry, the sick, the disabled, the children, the immigrant, and the powerless do.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Why would Peter Hegseth want to purge women from combat? Look no further than his spiritual mentor, Doug Wilson, and their ideas about "biblical masculinity." Read ‪@kieraevebutler.bsky.social‬'s full story here: bit.ly/3UM5Yd4 📹: @samveep.bsky.social
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Kid: I think Batman and Dracula are the same person Me: What. No, Kid: Have they ever been seen in the same place Me: Bruce Wayne is Batman and vampires can't go out in the sun Kid: You don't think Bruce Wayne the rich scientist could make a special sunblock? Me: ... Kid: Vampire bats drink blood
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The Fandomentals @thefandomentals.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bloody secrets from the lives of Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova are told in Marvel's next "Black, White, and Blood" miniseries, featuring new stories from @stephsmash.bsky.social , @gothamette.bsky.social , and @jeremywhitley.bsky.social ! www.thefandomentals.com/black-widow-...
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The Dark Secrets And Most Dangerous Missions Of Yelena Belova And Natasha Romanoff Are Revealed In Black Widow: Black, White, & Red Room - The Fandomentals
The new four-issue limited series by Stephanie Phillips, Devin Grayson, JG Jones and more, launches in December.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This starts bad and just gets worse.
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Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Drawing from our new book Supremacy, @nikobowie.bsky.social and I argue in @slate.com that limiting judicial supremacy is the only way to bind the president with law. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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John Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court
If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law.
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Roy Kent Swearing
ALT: Roy Kent Swearing
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A right to physical media must be enshrined in law. Where if you buy a book, movie, game, music, etc., the publisher must send you a physical copy or unlocked file on a storage device if they decide to cut off digital access.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Free political advice, most people are fairly tuned out when it comes to trans rights yet find it deeply weird to be obsessed with trans people, transphobia is the remit of billionaire pedophiles, and if you're adopting anti-trans stances, that's who it looks like you're serving the interests of.
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Elon Musk in Cap at White House
Alt: Elon Musk in Cap at White House
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026
"don't you care about fairness in sports?" No actually, I don't. Nobody does
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yeah, I've got a million other things in my life that are more important than anything the Harrison Bergeron Fairness Brigades are obsessed with.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Turnbuckles and twistlock lashing doing their thing at sea.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Corporate incomes are soaring. Worker incomes are barely treading water against inflation. #EconSky Via Steve Rattner.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A very chilling story for us Gen X former teenage SF nerds (especially yours truly, the same age as Jeff Bezos) www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys
Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.
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Smart Cookies podcast @smartcookies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I've hosted some of the most renowned intellectuals of our time on the pod, but in terms of numbers, none of those episodes came remotely close to my recent chat (on the madness of #AI) with @doctorow.pluralistic.net... I think he might be onto something: youtu.be/rRRmUuxJolY
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Cory Doctorow On Why AI Won't Replace Workers, But Will Crash The Economy
YouTube video by The Smart Cookies Podcast
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Well, this is sobering. youtube.com/shorts/Z4fqk...
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24% of US functionally unemployed
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Alex Bores @alexbores.nyc · 27/08/2026
This METR OpenAI report is a bombshell. I'm going to summarize for a non-technical audience. OpenAI is constantly testing models, thousands and thousands at a time.
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cato proves that taxing the rich is indeed a viable step to reducing, & perhaps eliminating, our disastrous & unsustainable debt. Taxes on corporations should be dramatically increased with an AMT so that corps pay taxes no matter how many write offs they have. Spending will also have to be cut.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/08/2026
Feeling restless in life? Level up your main quest with an activity that has no other purpose than to add whimsy to your life. Play experts share tips on how to find the perfect side quest.
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Feeling restless? Level up your life by starting a side quest
Feeling restless in life? Level up your main quest with an activity that has no other purpose than to add whimsy to your life. Play experts share tips on how to find the perfect side quest.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is probably unpopular on Bluesky, but I think what French is saying here is basically true. The IDEOLOGICAL foundations of the GOP, pre-Trump, have been razed to the ground. What he omits is that most GOP voters were instead attracted to certain EMOTIONAL undercurrents, out of which MAGA arose.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22/08/2026
The bond market is one of the few forces in the world strong enough to get politicians to snap to attention.
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Why the bond market is flexing its muscles, and why everyone needs to care
The bond market is one of the few forces in the world strong enough to get politicians to snap to attention.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
'as reading declines and more people turn to videos for political information, the literate culture that sustained sophisticated argument and rational debate is crumbling.' Worth contextualising with 18th-c upper-class horror at the advent of reading by working-class readers (esp. women). 1/2
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The death of reading puts the world in a perilous place
Books and newspapers are increasingly giving way to social media content as the habit of reading fades. This isn’t just dumbing down, it’s a threat to democracy
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I need this in a chart that also tracks gas prices through today.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Image someone is arrested for fentanyl possession, we know who sold it and know they're still selling it to anyone who wants it, but no action is taken against the dealer, not even suspending their billions in gov't contracts. Somehow, that's fine when people keep using xAI to generate CSAM.
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Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.
A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Workers' share of GDP is at its lowest point on record whereas the corporate share is near record highs. This dynamic may exacerbate as Trump's fiscal policies disproportionately benefit corporations and the wealthy.
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Magneto Was Left @padraigkingsley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" should be required reading for everybody. (There's also a VERY accessible graphic novel adaptation available, if you're intimidated by a 700pg tome: boingboing.net/2024/08/14/g...)
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Graphic novel adaptation of Thomas Piketty's "Capital & Ideology"
Thomas Piketty's 2020 book Capital & Ideology is a highly celebrated tome that uses economics and sociology to examine the intrinsic illegitimacy of income inequality and provides proposals for correc...
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The economy is worse, no matter what the rich jaw-flappers on TV keep saying. The top 1% are doing fine. Maybe the top 5%. But the vast majority of Americans are experiencing a worsening economy. #EconSky
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It’d be fantastic to have a couple otters and raccoons lol (Honestly it’s probably a terrible idea for lots of reasons but still a hilarious one)
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Our entire economy is being shifted around complete sociopaths.
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Growing up in an evangelical family, I have a lot of anger at what evangelicals have become. They take the Lord’s name in vain.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trump’s ICE raids have reduced the employment rate of US-born male workers, according to a new study. The study also found that employers have not increased wages to attract US workers. Hello? Not only is Trump’s deportation agenda patently cruel, it’s also terrible for the economy. Despicable.
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Study Shows How Trump's ICE Raids Cost Americans Jobs | Common Dreams
Trump's aggressive immigration raids are not only tearing families apart, but they're also destroying jobs for both immi
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Freek Van Ostrand @sullenfish.com · 30/07/2026
Isn’t this what @doctorow.pluralistic.net has been saying for as long as anyone’s been saying anything about it?
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
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Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps
Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota
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Popverse @popversesays.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Karen Berger in DC Comics' offices during her tenure in charge of Vertigo.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/07/2026
A closely watched gauge of risk in holding the debt of companies at the centre of the AI boom is rising rapidly, underscoring growing jitters over Big Tech’s vast spending on data centres, chips and computer memory. ft.trib.al/INz9FJ0
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Talking Feds with Harry Litman @talkingfeds.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
In this 1 on 1, #MaggieHaberman joins Harry to reveal how Trump is remaking the White House in his image -- and shares new reporting on his health, the midterms, the Insurrection Act, and the unchecked power of his second term. Link: youtu.be/kkyVaknDuyk
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 26/07/2026
That book inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing, which killed 167 people, including a bunch of kids in the building's day care center. In case you wondered how dangerous this rhetoric is.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
How did inequality spiral out of control? If you’ve never watched a video of mine, please watch this one.
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How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control | Robert Reich
Here it is: The full story of wealth inequality in America.The top 1% holds 15x more wealth than the bottom 50% combined
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.
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Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 23/07/2026
This is Nymeria. She is demonstrating the rare compact zoomies. Ideal for situations where you don't have much room, but still must zoom. 13/10 (TT: ouruntamedtale)
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Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Who did the ravaging in the city?
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