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@chintznibbles.bsky.social
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part-time cognitive & political psychologist, part-time art enjoyer, part-time amateur author. Actual human, last time I checked. he/they on occasion.

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chintznibbles.bsky.social @chintznibbles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If the professor isn't also full of BS, you might want to send them these complaints. CC the department, too, maybe. I know at my previous university, my department took written complaints from students seriously.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/10/2026
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congress needs to audit the White House and cut funding controlled by the president to the bone. What’s the minimum budget required for him to be housed, fed, and staffed to do the basics of the job? That should be his annual budget. Let him ask Congress for more as he needs it.
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026
This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!
Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty 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.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026
I swear I will vote for any person who runs on revenge and court reform. That’s it. Those are the two planks of your campaign? You got my vote
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since Jan. 20, 2025 and a blue wave in November won’t fix it if Trump can just ignore legislation passed by Congress.
cbsnews.com
Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026
Nothing will ever be enough for these people.
Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.
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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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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Arrest him?
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chintznibbles.bsky.social @chintznibbles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just realized I had never uploaded an avatar to this site, despite using it, uhhh, nearly every day for years? Anyway, am I Cool Dragon now.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026
it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026
Where are the GPUs? Undeployed, in warehouses because there's a cartel colluding to keep prices artificially high and keep the world dependent on inference capacity rented by about 6 companies.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026
NVIDIA has sold about $535bn of gpus and associated gear (mostly GPUs) in the data center segment since the beginning of fy2023 (February 2022). If Microsoft only has 2gw or so, I think it’s unlikely anyone else is even close. Where are the GPUs?
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is annoying me too but I also don't think we should look the gift horse that is an opportunity to actually meaningfully regulate a bunch of coked-up maniacs who got so scared of their own creepypasta they forgot they made it up
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
no amnesty
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 04/09/2026
Said it before, but across ALL creative industries, there is a glassy-eyed ayahuasca-addled CEO somewhere, slowly sawing the head off the golden goose while it's still laying an egg, grinning manically. Above them, a stadium-full of cocaine-dusted shareholders clap uproariously. This will continue
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
techdirt.com
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 27/08/2026
I made a new t-shirt about the only unskilled labor that should be replaced with a chatbot. In my shop now in a variety of styles at robsheridan.threadless.com/collections/...
"Replace CEOs with A.I." original t-shirt design from Glitch Goods by Rob Sheridan. A man in a business suit whose head is a Frankenstein box of computer parts. He is pointing to a line going up.
Text:
REPLACE CEOS
WITH A.I.
WHY IT MATTERS:
Reduce Costs by
Automating
UnshilledLabor!
- UNEARNED CONFIDENCE
- JUST MAKES SHIT UP
- STEALS YOUR WORK
- HAS NO SOUL
JUST LIKE THE REAL THING!
NOW WITH MORE FINGERS
Available at https://robsheridan.threadless.com
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Chris Towers Missed The Playoffs @cptowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i think part of the data center/AI backlash has to be that big tech made an awful lot of promises about how plentiful and abundant the future of technology would be and then have spent the past five years or so clawing it back and adding exceptions.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The current political moment has shown me how many people go through life frustrated that they don’t have the right state apparatus to indulge their worst urges. They‘re not “left behind”, they’re not “lonely”, they want to hurt other people. And this is their generational opportunity.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Where’s that post that’s like ‘to a lot of people the experience of the Roman Empire falling was that one day the bridge collapsed and no one came to repair it”?
nbcnews.com
‘Getting no help’: Thousands in Gary, Indiana, still without power nearly 2 weeks after storms
For some in the predominantly Black city, the lack of electricity has caused medical complications, while others are cooking what food they can at local parks before it spoils.
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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 TsubasaCon (Charleston, WV) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mamdani’s policies and movements are so scary to establishment Dems because he’s doing SO MANY, *all at once*…and they’re just, happening? Which completely flies in the face of the “slow progress” narrative we all were conditioned to accept. The more people learn of it, the more they’ll ask for it.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Regarding DSA-LA's non-endorsement of Nithya Raman, I think a lot of people on the left don't get that the way you gain clout with politicians is by proving yourself useful to them, not by threatening to withhold hypothetical future usefulness.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 28/08/2026
"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"
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onion person @junlper.beer · 26/08/2026
people who use ai for businesses baffle me. do they not read what these produce? do they not think this is decieving customers? it makes tou look lazy and i think you deserve to fail as a business
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026
Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/08/2026
In case you wanted about 3,700 words on the problems with today's "settlement" that gives Meta way more power over how the internet works than it should have.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I keep thinking, they can't be this cartoonishly evil, can they? And then
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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is not a new observation, but whenever a politician is spouting some heinous fucking garbage directed at a minority group, it should trigger an immediate analysis of their finances because it's probably cover for some kind of fraud.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
your nephew is hooked on opioids because cops took the drug prevention money and spent it on flock cameras to stalk their ex wives
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chintznibbles.bsky.social @chintznibbles.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The pics in that thread don't look that bad to me. It's definitely adding a lot of detail, but adding skin lines and realistic texture don't strike me as "yassified". If anything she looks older in those pics. That said, questions about artistic intent and who this is even for are still valid.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It is frustrating trying to be an honest, considerate, hardworking person, when many signs indicate it is much more lucrative right now to be a liar and a grifter with no moral core or ethical framework for daily life. I just hope these people eventually get what they deserve.
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