Reposted by cephynAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15hIf Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power. 361404307
Reposted by cephynBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16hfor reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?' 381070221
Reposted by cephynKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6hThe guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard 1213026490
Reposted by cephynMichael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 19hMason Miller is the best athlete named after two professions that become important as a hunter-gatherer society evolves into an agrarian society 1363066
Reposted by cephynJoe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 20hJust a weekend-long ad for full ABS. Players shouldn’t have to officiate the game. 1304
Reposted by cephynJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20hI'm not saying I have a gift of prophecy but 521501126
cephyn @cephyn.bsky.social · 19hYeah I found out we disagree about values like "human rights" and "non citizens are no different than animals" so... Real productive. Sorry Mr Economist, but humans just aren't rational actors. 011
Reposted by cephynACLU @aclu.org · 04/10/2026Shereen Marisol Meraji and @iammrbeat.bsky.social may come from two very different worlds, but they have one important thing in common: a deep dedication to history and justice. Together, they’re hosting the ACLU’s new podcast, Let the Record Show. Learn more.aclu.orgACLU Launches New Podcast ‘Let the Record Show’"Let the Record Show" covers historical Supreme Court cases. 318754
Reposted by cephynW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means. 421332171
Reposted by cephynAaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 21hThis man has to watch Trump rallies and news conferences non-stop for his job and it turns out the thing that will break him is Kyler Murray. 141405109
Reposted by cephynMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 33651811770
Reposted by cephynAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20hI really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different! 841277212
Reposted by cephynMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oligarchy is ridiculous, part 247839 5483493
cephyn @cephyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He's wrong - originalism is mostly subjective, and therefore can never be truly falsified. 000
Reposted by cephynOatsie @alexcsinger86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Imagine if President Obama had flown around the country with a substitute wife because Michelle hated his guts. The media would have filed impeachment papers themselves 913203602
Reposted by cephynSkittles Scary Skeletons ☕ @skittles6.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He'd be snugged with a fuzzy pink blanket, have water, acetaminophen & electrolytes at the ready when he got up. Not to mention the bucket available in case he gets sick. Women are the protectors men claim to be. 730745
Reposted by cephynJacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No baseball games tonight, so you should all check out our amazing new multimedia project on Baseball at Manzanar, with rare photos and interview clips with Japanese American survivors of the incarceration camps. The ebook is also a free download for all SABR members: sabr.org/baseball-at-... 22811
Reposted by cephynContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family 1604362886
Reposted by cephynDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chicago Pope from the top rope! 331153
Reposted by cephynSecret Base @secretbase.bsky.social · 02/10/2026ROBIN VENTURA vs. NOLAN RYAN TUESDAY 10/6/26, 9PM EST 1H23M youtu.be/p6gXBCvf8q0?...youtu.beROBIN VENTURA vs. NOLAN RYANYouTube video by Secret Base 2308
Reposted by cephynKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And after that he dug in his heels and set his jaw and rubber-stamped everything Trump wanted for the next 1000 months 1059658
Reposted by cephynrst.bsky.social @rst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026An interesting test here is whether the models can construct working programs in a programming language that did not exist when their training set was gathered, so no samples can possibly have been in the training data. They can, and there are projects exploiting this, e.g., bend-lang.com 162
Reposted by cephynRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks. 60476622285
Reposted by cephynAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 895254416022
Reposted by cephynRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this. 1099123513133
Reposted by cephynInoreader @inoreader.com · 01/10/2026Reddit has announced that it will end RSS support on November 13. This will affect Reddit subscriptions in Inoreader and other RSS readers. We’re monitoring the situation and reviewing the available options. Read more about the change:inoreader.comReddit is ending RSS support: What this means for InoreaderReddit has announced that it will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026. This change will affect users who follow... 152
Reposted by cephynJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Mystery Flock cameras discovered in Florida community: "Meanwhile, some residents in St. Lucie County have been dismayed to learn an unknown entity might have been watching them." wapo.st/4ACHFOZwapo.stFlorida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious ownerOfficials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved. 57345
Reposted by cephynEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I wrote about the thing I underestimated most about progress in AI: its ability to self-organize to accomplish tasks. Also, what that means for agents like Muse and Dots, along with a music video explaining why we keep relearning The Bitter Lesson. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...open.substack.comThe Dot and the SwarmBenefitting from the Bitter Lesson 59017
Reposted by cephynHistory Today @historytoday.com · 29/09/2026#Charlemagne’s death in 814 spelled disaster for the Carolingian Empire. The centre could not hold; within 40 years, the dynasty dissolved into chaos. 🔒 James T. Palmer’s October article is available in the archive buff.ly/yQks2nQbuff.lyThe Decline of the CarolingiansThe Carolingian Empire was consolidated by one of Europe’s most celebrated kings, but Charlemagne’s death meant that decline was inevitable. 174
Reposted by cephynThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/10/2026BREAKING: Tennessee governor puts a halt on executions after inmate Christa Gail Pike survives a lethal injection attempt.bit.lyTennessee governor halts executions after inmate survives lethal injection attemptMedia witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday. 3525191
Reposted by cephynRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...kgw.com 972690550
Reposted by cephynEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Leaving aside Anthropic's incentives for publishing this research, there is no doubt that open weights models will soon create the same security threats that closed source models have been demonstrating, except without guardrails. We are close, so plan accordingly. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... 714627
Reposted by cephynDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026I'm so tired of everything about renting that I think I might scream and i am firmly of a generation in which there is essentially no way that we will ever own homes without losing someone we love and honestly, I think it's starting to get to me. 1853539
Reposted by cephynDiane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And heaven forbid you have a carry on larger than a pencil case. 28713
Reposted by cephynVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt* 2257985
Reposted by cephynNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I’ll reiterate that I worked for the state of California we received neither free break room coffee or free hot water for our tea 822913
Reposted by cephynNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/02/2025A lot of the inefficiencies in government come from efforts to make it *leaner*: micromanaging workers in the name of eliminating waste, withholding the perks and salaries that they could expect at an equivalent private sector job, etc 13651105
Reposted by cephynSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wait, was rolling out the red carpet for Xi a Chinese psyop too? I'm really confused about the GOP stance on China. 1663545636
Reposted by cephynaustin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 28/09/2026live your life in such a way that you dont have to hide your company's swag 1031748
Reposted by cephynJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 28/09/2026you’re not a true james bond fan unless you know both of the words to the james bond theme song 4157552
Reposted by cephynJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is basically the same shit Kevin O'Leary was peddling that prompted a defamation lawsuit and a bevy of corrections by Fox 991845373
Reposted by cephynjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026this is the fridge of a person who doesn’t prepare a single meal 3514942276
Reposted by cephynJen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In convo with U.S. Hispanic Business Council, Texas GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton says he supports bringing data centers to Texas. “There’s plenty of open space in Texas," he says. "They're creating a lot of jobs." Data centers will be "a huge economic boon." 2520187
Reposted by cephynCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's weird that Trump is speaking at 2PM until you realize that his audience is not the American people -- he doesn't give a shit about us -- his audience are cable news producers, who will now have time to propagandize up whatever shit show speech he delivers in time for the evening viewers. 39717
Reposted by cephynGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo. 17744711798
Reposted by cephynBen Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason." 11859511283
Reposted by cephynMarc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One thing that's funny about people getting super mad about claims that someone might not have heard the song that's charted at No. 1 for 23 weeks is this: I could not tell you what the charts are measuring anymore 4463