Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialFrankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i am increasingly of the belief that this type of shit is at least as corrosive to democratic society as out-and-out fascism is 1245561
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialfunctional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026a genuine hard thing about teaching is that once you've done it long enough it's nearly impossible to put yourself in the shoes of someone learning it for the first time. it's easy for me to go "why are you unable to remember literally everything i said"- about things i've taught for 10 years 0121
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialAram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 05/10/2026"All knowledge and information should be free" is a radical statement b/c it comes with radical politics. One cannot make knowledge free in a world where everything has a price. It is an anti-capitalist statement and therefore has nothing to do with billion dollar tech companies (except opposition). 251
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law. 31699141
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yglesias has lost his mind. This is not "progressive economic thinking," this is what you see on Twitter. substack.com/@matthewygle... 991518132
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialElsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart 168143524733
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦♂️ 381346290
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hear me out -- Drunk History: Live 6490068
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialElizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026 173128203007
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe 12762258
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialJonathan Koomey @jgkoomey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It is bad for real research, but useful for programming and data manipulation. No real researcher should be using LLMS for search, summaries, or writing. They are antithetical to serious research, in part because they just make stuff up. 0162
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialJustin Harkey @justinharkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think AI for research and development is a good thing. As a developer it has sped me up probably 8-10 times what I was doing before. However, I don't like it for the arts and humanities, I don't like the products that propose it as a friend or assistant, and I don't like it replacing real people. 8242
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us 351344492
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I was reading someone who put into words a way to discern ai writing (and which also makes AI writing annoying): that it tries to end every paragraph with a mic drop. I had mentally categorized this as "writes like a teenager trying to show off" but this is much more specific. 1543348
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/02/2025"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) 488228866009
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A feature of post-war German democracy has been that the left has traditionally had far more of a firewall to the far left than the center right has had with the far right. The central role of anti-communism in Cold War West Germany created a structural asymmetry that has not been reckoned with. 722969
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialParis Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on. 332832350
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/09/2026This is crap for two reasons. 1: polls show, clear majorities of all parties support expanding childcare access 2: if parents are wary of childcare, it's because Reps spent four decades vilifying employed moms, stoking false fears of daycare, and underfunding programs in ways that limit care quality 613327
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialMichael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We’re used to this “bait and switch” angle: distract with culture war and deliver harmful economic policies. I argue in Rural Pain, Republican Gain that the key is not distraction but rebranding policy areas like healthcare as part of the culture war. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduRural Pain, Republican GainAn eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party—not despite this harm, but becaus... 1197
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I think this is correct, and I've been thinking a lot about what replaces all this stuff. If it is going away, you'd think the institutional players would have some idea of what might take its place. But they don't seem to have a vision for that, or any interest in it. It's private equity mindset. 681588206
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:thehandbasket.coRepublicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problemA spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same. 10182512699
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026The man who won't let you have paid sick leave or health care returns to Congress after getting free health care and 90 days paid sick leave 864166555267
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026there’s a conversation to be had about whether and to what extent social media could be categorized as addictive, but anyone just saying “oh so you can be ADDICTED to talking to your FRIENDS??” is not honestly engaging in that conversation 49121182
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Its kind of wild that Trump II has given us such striking visuals of actual, literal destruction of DC to go along with the discussion of his more abstract destruction of the broader country 24112
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 12/09/2026It is absolutely shocking how little Democrats have learned from Trump. The #1 thing he's taught is that swing voters will still vote for you despite "controversial" positions. So stand up for the truth, and let people know why. The offended ones weren't going to vote for you anyway. 3499
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 12/09/2026This is why Democrats falling for disingenuous claims that retreating on trans rights or some other issue would ever work. Republicans campaign against imaginary Democrats. They'll accuse you of anything, so stand for the right thing and communicate constantly and very well. 48323
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026 Me in 2017. The only folks who bought into the right's free speech nonsense were credulous marks or in on the scam. It was bad faith from the start, and folks who bought into it should be ashamed. 234881
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My very controversial opinion is that nobody should be allowed to do this in a democracy and in fact if people are allowed to do this you don't actually live in a democracy 141029264
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you” 3148051546
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed. 11376052441
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialDave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There is an ethnic cleansing going on is this country, and the government is nazi posting about it, meanwhile the democratic party politicians are more concerned with condemning a person 98% of people have never heard of. What is going on? 171148337
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialNick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Making university faculty sit in their offices from 8 am to 5 pm every day, 5 days a week, is insane and serves no conceivable academic purpose. The fact that admins and even *staff* are exempt from this absurd requirement shows the real goal is to make tenured faculty quit. 391629357
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026JKR had her chance at a future where she would be remembered forever for getting kids to fall in love with reading, and instead she will be remembered as a stochastic terrorist on the wrong side of one of 21st century history’s foremost civil rights battles, and I do think that’s somewhat sinking in 83016486
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialShower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026In fact, you should *not* platform them, even to debate them because it reinforces the idea that there is something worth debating. These are bad faith arguments that have already been proven false. 1257
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 19/08/2026But personal and cultural attacks don't have to be insults about physique or total fabrications. Jon Ossoff's insult of Trump's total reliance on a cultist like Natalie Harp is a perfect attack that is true while also being factual and policy-relevant. 61106152
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialShaun Keegan @shaunkeegan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026“Dismissing ADHD as a social construct doesn’t just trivialise an established clinical condition – it perpetuates the inequalities faced by people with ADHD across education, health, employment and the justice system” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comRising number of people seeking ADHD diagnosis without treatment, say expertsPsychiatrists in Channel 4 documentary argue it is more a ‘social construct’ than a medical condition 32714
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The term “transphobic” is so inadequate for bigotry like Hegseth’s. He doesn’t fear trans people like some fear spiders or heights. He hates them with a passion. It’s an evil choice, not a psychological malady. 2032671534
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Wholly endorse. Democrats should be thinking/talking now about how to impose accountability -- real accountability -- for exactly these kinds of abuses once they retake power: 21744223
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialAram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 19/08/2026like it is genuinely startling how bad this software is. the gap between things google does well and things google does badly is so huge like guys basic shit please, please make basic shit work that every other conferencing app has. oh my god come onnnnnnnnnnnn. Are you not embarrassed? 471
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026i guess my big question is, if the mega donors aren’t donating to dems anymore, and dems are still winning, then why exactly are dems still kowtowing to them when it actively destroys voter trust in the party and democracy 728648
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026one part “my green room friends thought it was mean,” one part debilitating fear of backlash. inability to see that ossof successfully goaded the white house into *being reactive* and thus revealing that there is a story here 50689011298
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026one thing you can't stop seeing once you notice it is how the pundits the mainstream media platform actively punish any dem who lands on effective messaging 1173463608
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18/08/2026<Pitchbot voice> "We wanted to understand what academia can learn from Jason Arday's rise and fall. So we asked someone who hates academia, is no longer a professor, and has never worked in a research university to weigh the questions his story left behind" 17846181
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialDan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality 51537435
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I mean it when I say the government should shut down media organs that lie. 1011233
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026@gelliottmorris.com has been making me more aware of this—anytime a leftwing Dem becomes popular, pundits redefine them as not actually leftwing 28664119
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialGregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'. 51434461311
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15/08/2026For some reason I'm reminded of Rosenberg defense attorney Manny Bloch asking David Greenglass, as Greenglass paved the way for his sister's execution, "Are you aware that you are smiling?" 21667143
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026There's a line in Nolan's ODYSSEY that stuck with me: "The clearest view of a man is from below." If you're approaching the people you cover as friends or colleagues, you are doing it wrong. 1044356
Reposted by @callmebruno.bsky.socialJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14/08/2026Contrary to AGS’s insulting straw man, few people are demanding reporters become liberal warriors, we just want the profession to take its own existence and our fundamental rights — and the truth — seriously. No need to shill. Just take the stakes of the job seriously. 372394
