Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: But do you use keyboard shortcuts?; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/14/c... #Pluralistic 2264
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialAll Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"I’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...mcsweeneys.netI’m the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company’s Insatiable AI Platform“One minute, they are a treasured record of human thought. The next, they are twelve searchable megabytes and a manageable quantity of mixed paper strips goi... 35415
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back. wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.htmlwantmymtv.vercel.appMTV REWIND - 33,000+ Music Videos • Zero Ads • Zero AlgorithmsExperience MTV's golden era with 33,000+ music videos spanning 6 decades. Free 24/7 streaming. No ads. No algorithm. Just press play. 472386873
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialLawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026A lot of the push for consumer-facing AI seems to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the creative process by people without a creative bone in their bodies. 846564
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/11/2025NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...open.substack.comThe Great AI BubbleYes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst. 761682765
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Whoever came up with daylight savings did not have a dog who knows EXACTLY WHAT FUCKING TIME DINNER IS 1323014
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy? 894117041909
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialBen Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are. 322126406301
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialSpencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 23/10/2025We're at the point in the story where the FBI is showing up at a dude's house because he attended a protest. Without suspicion of a crime, agents ask important questions like who produced signs for the event. And it had an impact--he decided not to go back to the streets to voice his opinions. 401738746
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 20/10/2025This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin) 754302553
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2025every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets” 11791482011
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialAmy Tidd @amytidd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Thanks Carl! 261911413
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialAntonio @antonio442.bsky.social · 28/09/2025The Liberal Project spans centuries and is larger than any one country! The fight for individual liberties and true social virtue is not lost we have to reclaim our Truth!!!! 1262987
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The National Guard has assessed that its Washington, D.C. mission is perceived as “leveraging fear,” driving a “wedge between citizens and the military,” and promoting a sense of “shame” among some troops and veterans. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comNational Guard collects unfavorable public input on D.C. deploymentInternal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military. 1515447
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal. 611451422
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025(1/X) Sometimes people ask "why does this supposedly reasonable Republican back Trump or why does this centrist spend all of this time attacking the left at a time when the right is destroying the country?" The answer is simple: it's because they're assholes. 28806143
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025(4/X) This is a lesson that I've learned from dealing with narcissistic sociopath co-worker. We don't have a him problem, we have a shitty administrator problem. And the only thing that could fix this problem would be to make the shitty administrators believe they will face real consequences. 630920
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/08/2025If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday. 11940431077
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens. 9441191237
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2025If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back? 271187375797
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline. 795420859308
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/202512 years earlier.theonion.com‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly HappensISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ... 43106931295
charlie-strauss.bsky.social @charlie-strauss.bsky.social · 18/07/2025People Are The Point open.substack.com/pub/whatwelo...open.substack.comPeople Are The PointI... uh... I think I wrote a manifesto. 010
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialMaggie Fox @maggiefox.bsky.social · 15/07/2025"The framers of the Amendment...consciously chose to go through the rigors of the amendment process—instead of just passing a law—precisely to prevent future Congresses from repealing principles like birthright citizenship and to avoid future Supreme Courts from improperly interpreting them." 225058
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Shout this! 10453111707
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialPBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/07/2025A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold." 4263894411256
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this. 34849981621743
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43719650637481
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today. 13750761096
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialAugust J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 15/06/2025AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her 4466921680
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 17/06/2025seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit 315131532574
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics 243172354622
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15/06/2025It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution. 458153622985
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/06/2025How many reporters are currently working on tell-all exposés about their own organization, detailing all the acts of cowardice of their editors and publishers? I won’t ever buy your book about Sleepy Joe Biden, but I’d absolutely devour a book about the internal collapse of the NYT or CNN. 14264751253
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/06/2025lmao he looks miserable 3827362586
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/06/2025 24738219
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.sociallaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025There has long been zero fucking excuse for Senate Dems to cede the power they have to slow or stop that body’s work from proceeding and now there is less than zero 13938146
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt. 322156924102
Reposted by @charlie-strauss.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025The state of California needs to arrest the DHS "security" forces for assault and every Democrat in the U.S. Senate needs to sign onto a campaign to impeach Kristi Noem. Right fucking now. 244124463631
