Reposted by Chip BayersRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9hAgain, gas prices spiked in 2022-23 because Russia invaded Ukraine which caused a major disruption in global supply. Then they came down. Biden didn’t cause it. Gas prices rose in 2026 due solely to the stupidity of Trump who started a war in the Middle East. 1071996532
Reposted by Chip BayersWard Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 14hGreat thread. Revive the OTA! This is also why I do not support term limits in Congress (at least not until other issues are fixed), because they would increase the churn and lead to even more reliance on lobbyists to explain complex issues. 24111
Reposted by Chip BayersErnie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 15hSam Altman is the ultimate example of “sometimes the best asset is being early.” He managed to get in the door at YC super early and then got wind that AI was blowing up super early. That’s basically his strategic advantage. 092
Reposted by Chip BayersPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 15htell me you flunked geometry without telling me you flunked geometry 33765105
Reposted by Chip BayersJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 14hI try to do a policy 1080 every few years, just to keep things interesting 14708
Reposted by Chip BayersHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 16hWould be comic if it were not vicious. Actually it’s both. Sen Schmitt framed a whole perjury suggestion on the basis of Jack Smith’s attending an Atlanta Hawks game and surreptitiously seeing Fulton County prosecutor. In fact it was Iowa Hawkeyes (Caitlin Clark) in College Park Maryland 2230159
Reposted by Chip BayersDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 18hSend him in crate. We are the shithole nation. Us. 1429274
Reposted by Chip BayersGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h💯. But the press won't bother itself to start reporting what experts think of this. Instead they try to make sense of it and recast his gibberish in failed efforts to make it cohere. 28837175
Reposted by Chip BayersChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 18hWe're losing billions of dollars every year, most of our revenue comes from two customers, and we believe our product has a good chance of killing everyone. We value ourselves at $2 trillion. 15414
Reposted by Chip BayersEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026If you have the Anthropic S-1, please message me at ezitron.76 on signal, i will protect your identity 436657
Reposted by Chip BayersRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office. 32800316
Reposted by Chip BayersRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Glendy and Nixon's children are now orphans," the archbishop said... "The family was a beloved member of our community; their children received their first sacraments in our parishes..." "This is not a gray area... What is happening is gravely immoral." www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...stltoday.comSt. Louis Archdiocese wants end to 'mass deportation,' says immigrant treatment 'sinful'Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski called for a path to legal status for those without documentation. 251259440
Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Another blown call by this crew requires a replay reversal. 000
Chip Bayers @chipbayers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’m not a fan of either of these teams and the officiating in this has been an embarrassment. 000
Reposted by Chip Bayersderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor. 1136512881
Reposted by Chip Bayersderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this. 634245323
Reposted by Chip BayersDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming. 331473287
Reposted by Chip BayersEdward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...nytimes.comTrump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan. 22209141
Reposted by Chip Bayersdemosthenes1959.bsky.social @demosthenes1959.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One expects Netanyahu cynically did it to let Israelis die at the hand of terrorists so he could use a genocidal war to consolidate political support for turning Gaza into a depopulated desert: 143
Reposted by Chip BayersCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843061172
Reposted by Chip BayersAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director. 571119153
Reposted by Chip BayersAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It gets talked about as gas prices and that obviously boosts it, but the Iran war in and of itself was insanely unpopular from the start, simply as a war, because voters actually do strongly hate the whole idea of yet another dumb stupid costly never-ending bloody quagmire war in the Middle East. 322535
Reposted by Chip BayersThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026A man who was pardoned by President Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot was arrested on Thursday on charges that he recorded himself touching a woman’s hair on a Metro train in suburban Washington in March, the authorities said.nyti.msPardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Is Accused of Touching Woman’s Hair on D.C. MetroBryan Betancur, 29, was taken into custody on Thursday in Arlington, Va., two days after he completed a sentence for the same offense in the District of Columbia. 3011340
Reposted by Chip BayersJoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mike Lee thinking President Xi knows more about Americanized Chinese food than the Jewish community is an insult to both cultures. 1172
Reposted by Chip BayersRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Trump makes big promises while his incompetence delivers misery. bsky.app/profile/ronf... 951310454
Reposted by Chip BayersRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Republicans wrecked the free market with tariffs and another stupid war and are now looking for government intervention and bailouts to fix the problem but the Democrats are communists. 582325549
Reposted by Chip Bayers#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 25/09/2026*Super Intelligence just killed Grandma arstechnica.com/health/2026/...arstechnica.comTrump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experimentVendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible." 45919
Reposted by Chip BayersGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This sucks I'm on a plane to Vegas and the pilots just ran outta the cockpit in squirrel costumes and whatnot #FurryInvasion 891694159
Reposted by Chip BayersBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good. Don't hold back on your confessions, Sir. Feel free to continue talking. 819846
Reposted by Chip BayersClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 271467747
Reposted by Chip BayersAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here? 53352831436
Reposted by Chip BayersAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026why is alleged private citizen Ivanka Trump sitting by JD Vance, Rubio, and Bessent? 2761886481
Reposted by Chip BayersRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Every one of these people view their positions in the government as an opportunity to cash in on multiple grifts while traveling the world and having a great time at our expense. 15837491335
Reposted by Chip BayersBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Most Republicans know they’ve been aiding and abetting something abhorrent, and so their whininess and special pleas are mostly just part of the same bad faith act. But I do think they siloed themselves enough to lose track of the intensity of it, and must find this experience really disorienting. 616838
Reposted by Chip BayersEugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As a representative of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, I cannot officially comment on this, other than to say, yes, this is a real video of an actual Senator on the floor of the United States Senate. 1299
Reposted by Chip BayersRob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Theory: It's just that they are all still on Twitter, and they credulously mistook Musk's manipulation of the algorithm as the manifestation of a genuine cultural change. Maybe it's not any more complicated than that. 46138581
Reposted by Chip BayersAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps. 302103443155
Reposted by Chip BayersHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/09/2026Alt hed: The only other living Republican president appeared at a GOP fundraiser to help stop any attempt to curb Trump 59518
Reposted by Chip BayersEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/09/2026This shit is dead as disco. Needs $174 billion in debt to get off the ground and had to pull its IPO because it makes no money and won’t make a dime off OpenAI until, at best, 2028, and that is making a lot of assumptions about OpenAI’s solvency 2151077
Reposted by Chip BayersAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill 25153901292
Reposted by Chip BayersMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026They were cool with the racism, sexism, bigotry, corruption, dismantling of social services and common decency, burning every ally, shooting American citizens in the face in the street, the insurrection, Trump being besties with Epstein etc etc. But once the price of gas got too high it was over. 621425319
Reposted by Chip BayersKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If I ever say "it was good Elon Musk bought Twitter", several friends would know that it is a very specific cry for help and intervene immediately. 420812
Reposted by Chip BayersTim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yeah, I find the whole debate quite bizarre for this reason. They're fooling people with a combination of impressive statistical modelling and our innate tendency towards anthropomorphism. 052
Reposted by Chip BayersRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When confronted by current bad economic data showing things getting worse, Republicans blame Biden. When confronted with polls showing dissatisfaction, they say the polls are wrong. When confronted with election results of voter revolts, they say the elections are rigged. 721637413
Reposted by Chip BayersJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s abuse of power. Falsely labeling things an emergency or a national security need allows him to circumvent Congress and common sense. 3021049