Reposted by ColinTyler King @tyleraking.com · 20hTheir mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights. 36833293
Reposted by ColinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15hYour nerd-ass freshman roommate after three beers, repeating random shit he heard on TikTok. 3250559
Reposted by ColinMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability. 451422338
Reposted by ColinLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this 364375573
Reposted by ColinDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15hUnless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by CongressThe move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 8227421026
Reposted by ColinTruthout @truthout.org · 14hTrump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela during an hourslong session with the chatbot just weeks before the attack this January.buff.lyReport: Trump Used Grok to Help Talk Him Into Illegal Invasion of VenezuelaThe president reportedly used the AI chatbot for hours when Elon Musk visited the White House last December. 18258
Reposted by ColinBryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 17hFascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...the74million.orgNearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New MexicoA new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico. 8395148
Reposted by ColinChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028 131492248
Reposted by ColinMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular. 2236588681
Reposted by ColinKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"? 683005697
Reposted by ColinJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9651702103
Reposted by ColinJimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026Self-driving US military by 2027. Wait 2028. Definitely by 2029-30. 2045.newrepublic.comHegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead MilitaryPete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military. 392
Reposted by ColinTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies. 401538559
Reposted by ColinPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wow, they really ARE running the government like a software company 5587127
Reposted by ColinChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should. 524101572223
Reposted by ColinPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I am going to say what I've been saying for some time. If they succeed in restricting and criminalizing abortion pills, more people are going to die. ALSO, I think that the public is overly complacent right now. 224880
Reposted by ColinPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hegseth announces new effort to study "future of warfare" led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Newt Gingrich. Luckey: — Trump donor — Self-proclaimed "radical Zionist" — Secretly visited Israel to meet with Netanyahu — Trump Jr & Jared Kushner's brother have major stakes in his weapons company, Anduril 1618962
Reposted by ColinHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h... 1221774550
Reposted by ColinStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Billionaires should not exist. Somewhere a Bastille needs storming. ⚒️ 1519180
Reposted by ColinMatthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Until they are punished- they will continue to act with impunity 012
Reposted by ColinMatthew R. Deroo @deroomat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How debased - these guys would take off all their clothes to be naked with their emperor king 021
Reposted by ColinHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026One of the biggest AI companies is paying to "present" Politico's flagship newsletter as it touts "AI's big day in Washington." Good stuff. 823944
Reposted by ColinTyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026Tangentially, the military has made a service-wide push into using personal phones as work devices, meaning Meta is no doubt ingesting sensitive if not classified/secret data. And I’d be curious what this might mean for Signal. 521942
Reposted by ColinLarryLegend @bwtrainer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026if someone tells you you don't need a union, you 100% need a union 13835263
Reposted by ColinDr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Counterpoint: no they don’t. University administrators, academic advisors, faculty in STEM departments, boards of trustees, state funding bodies, employers, etc. are the ones who “need to do more.” “The Humanities” (whatever that means) is already doing the absolute most. 0347
Reposted by ColinDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249602743
Reposted by ColinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago? 10380112
Reposted by ColinDanya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So fucking goddamn funny, I have never felt schadenfreude this hard in my LIFE 2111
Reposted by ColinNoel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12708307
Reposted by ColinDanya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Want to add that a CUNY branch is one of my neighborhood's many treasures. Do you know how cool it is to walk by on the way home from school with my kindergartner, admiring the book stacks through the window, talking about all the things she can learn and grow up to be??? 181
Reposted by ColinJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17092953067
Reposted by ColinThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They are playing in our faces 409125855970
Reposted by ColinGil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich” 751066399
Reposted by ColinRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We've stolen a lot of young people's lives by telling them they have to be planning A Great Career when they're like 19 668095
Reposted by ColinRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27574943148
Reposted by ColinTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026today in Stop Romanticizing Canada: Quebec’s Bill 9 has just taken effect, barring women in veils from receiving public services. Public employees include university faculty, so professors have been instructed to require veiled women to uncover their faces or be removed from the classroom. 9252104
Reposted by ColinChristopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Drexel University is choosing to shut down the country’s oldest natural history museum, The Academy of Natural Sciences, for “funding” reasons (even though it costs .6% of their annual budget and they spent WAY more on ai nobody wants this year!) Go to save-the-academy.org to help. 315596
Reposted by ColinCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down. 222257519
Reposted by ColinDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026No one would be able to say this stuff if the fossil fuel industry didn't own both the people saying it *and* the media ecosystem reporting it. But here we are. 814259
Reposted by ColinPatrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ireland has highest domestic electricity bills in Europe, directly linked to runaway growth in data centres since 2015. Ireland could be a world leader in clean energy, which would insulate us from energy price volatility. These are policy decisions. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...irishtimes.comHouseholds ‘put on the hook’ for cost of data centre expansion to electricity gridIrish consumers pay disproportionately more for electricity than large data centres, report suggests 43117
Reposted by ColinJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_... 4827911164
Reposted by ColinJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026Habeas corpus rights are guaranteed by Article I of our Constitution, which lists Congress's powers. Only Congress can determine that an invasion or rebellion is underway and suspend the writ. Hiding prisoners from the courts is unconstitutional. constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ 322450
Reposted by ColinAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns. 412509829
Reposted by ColinProPublica @propublica.org · 21/09/2026The Army awarded an artillery shell project to General Dynamics in a rushed process without the typical vetting. The result: a fiasco in a Texas factory with robots in flames and half a billion dollars in taxpayer funds that yielded no usable shells.propublica.orgThe Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million FiascoProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting. 30638290
Reposted by ColinDan Hon @danhon.com · 22/09/2026Can't believe I'm so jaded that I look at that number and think: "huh, I thought it would be more than that" 37217
Reposted by ColinCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026heck yeah my Luddite print and sticker from @wolfproofpress.com arrived today (and will soon be up in my new office!) 54213