Reposted by Colin BrookerCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17hFormer Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert died this morning. For 16 years, while he was a coach and government teacher at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois, Hastert sexually abused at least four boys (and likely more). (thread) 16880270
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 4h#9: Because the entire recording to Queen’s LiveAid performance is on this album. www.my9albums.com/s/EJm3Nan5lymy9albums.comMy 9 albumsA Kind of Magic, Abbey Road, Distant Worlds II: More Music From Final Fantasy and 6 more. Pick yours on my9albums. 000
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 5hHow about, instead of this, we let Iran blow up the White House with all the Trumps and the rest of his treasonous administration in it? Small price to pay, right? 000
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 6hThe man that should have been in front of a firing squad by 5pm on Jan 6th 2021 is telling Iran to bomb LA and San Diego. Fuck all of you for letting this shit happen 010
Reposted by Colin BrookerBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think…. 19141411280
Reposted by Colin BrookerMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Having to deal with this all the time at work (not from choice, other businesses have implemented it) I can say that is absolutely true. It cannot explain simple software tasks for its own product but we trust it with all the big stuff because it talks real pretty and says we're smart? 012518
Reposted by Colin BrookerFreethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026 653125304115
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They are NOT rouge AI agents. They are rouge AI COMPANIES. Sammy and Dario should be in jail. 001
Reposted by Colin BrookerWalter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026DIGGER is very much the sensation of a very dim person talking to you as though you were the very dim person. It is, in other words, a classic Iñárritu joint. 220731
Reposted by Colin Brooker𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit. 391128573825
Reposted by Colin BrookerKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026With the merging of these two iconic companies, Skydance is ready to soar into the future! 441419268
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I appreciate the foreshadowing David inadvertently gave us. This ship is going to wreck right into the ice berg that is the AI bubble and crack in half once again. My money is on Netflix getting Warner Bros on the cheap at the end of this. 000
Reposted by Colin BrookerSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I was on the sidewalk, clearly talking on the phone when some Mormon girls interrupted me to ask “would you like to come to church with us?” And I said “I super don’t” without thinking. 77150340
Reposted by Colin Brookerpriscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I do read romance and it's not monolithic, e.g. you can find almost any genre represented under this umbrella. and though there are tropes and a few hard rules - like the happily ever after - there's no set formula. never forget it's okay to shut the fuck up about something you know nothing about. 1857
Reposted by Colin BrookerRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/202625th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president. 992177515296
Reposted by Colin BrookerJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119115422864
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Imagine if the AI money had been spent on Climate Change instead of mostly being set on fire for no reason (other than what Sam and Dario skimmed off the top) 000
Reposted by Colin BrookerJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s no accident community college dropout Chuck Kirk usually “debated” college kids: the few times he engaged actual experts, even just ppl his own age—he usually regretted it. I’m legit insulted UCLA (illegally) fired me for posting truth about this dumb ass bigot. www.gofundme.com/f/waiting-fo... 671828419
Reposted by Colin BrookerRhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you're having trouble visualizing 57 men ignored an attack on another human, this might help. 57 people is 11 basketball teams + 2 5 football teams + 2 A school bus full of children Four 12-person felony juries, plus nine people. That's how many men failed to help this poor woman. #Cornell7 922881831
Reposted by Colin BrookerJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 1002201779
Reposted by Colin BrookerCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Eric Schmitt fucked up so badly today that even The New York Times isn't mincing words on how badly he fucked up. 251134226
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wish more CompSci people at these AI companies had been breadth to their education. Maybe they wouldn be such easy marks for a pseudo-religion like the Rationalists. 000
Reposted by Colin BrookerJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇 901264789101
Reposted by Colin BrookerEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment. 2390180
Reposted by Colin BrookerEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes. 531822310
Reposted by Colin BrookerJosh Gilbert, Occasional Artist @shokxonestudios.bsky.social · 27/09/2026PSA: A "plot hole" is when a movie establishes a rule to govern its internal logic, then breaks that rule later on for narrative convenience with zero explanation. "I thought of this problem even though the movie doesn't address it at all" is not a plot hole. 6534
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@edzitron.com was this heavily edited? It sure feels like it was. youtu.be/OhOmLqR5nN4?...youtu.beAI Emergency: The AI Labs Are Lying To Everyone, He Says 99% Chance Of Extinction | Roman YampolskiyYouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO 000
Reposted by Colin Brookerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule. 942828462
Reposted by Colin BrookerRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system. 547156776035
Reposted by Colin BrookerProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19596023539
Reposted by Colin BrookerDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6537521482
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Loaded with much mediocre streaming fodder, Twin Peaks way too low on the list, no What We Do in the Shadows or the most prescient show of now, Silicon Valley… Maybe that will be obvious once the bubble pops and these tech billionaires send us into a recession with their Rationalist bullshit. 000
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And this is why Ellisons are asking Musk for merger money… 013
Reposted by Colin BrookerBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/09/2026Damn, he had Sam Altman dead to rights in 2016 3745169
Reposted by Colin Brookerisla @demomolos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026hello I am Scared AI Expert. please understand the money eating robot is getting out of control. that’s why I need to have one billion dollars for my new AI Safety team 11784
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Pragmata sure hits the girl dad heart hard. Fantastic game! Far more emotional than I ever would have expected. Capcom is unstoppable these days. #Pragmata #Capcom 000
Reposted by Colin BrookerResistenza @resistenza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026More corruption. 691120394945
Reposted by Colin BrookerWalter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Zach Cregger's next video game adaptation should be Katamari Damacy. You heard me. 116328
Colin Brooker @colinbrooker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If they’re to be believed, then Open AI and Anthropic are using their cloud software to hack. This is a felony. @democrats.org why are none of you calling for arrests!? 000
Reposted by Colin BrookerBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026They live in a false reality they have built around themselves….. 23984563019