Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJoel Padgett @joelpadgett.us · 10hExample 1A of how AI will destroy most of humanity. At the testosterone tinged fingers of our own Buck' Turgidson. 061
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13hEx-WV police chief violently attacked a woman over an expired registration. Though innocent, she spent five days in jail before the charge was dismissed. He resigned and was decertified. 90044762199
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJoni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 10hFar too many blame the victim for defending itself 07216
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 10hThe Golden Age of higher prices all around. Thanks, Donald! 0384
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneRobb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 10hMelting Permafrost Is Poisoning Rivers With Metal Levels 70 Times Higher Than Normal www.sciencealert.com/as-permafros...?sciencealert.comMelting Permafrost Is Poisoning Rivers With Metal Levels 70 Times Higher Than NormalOver the past decade, a network of usually pristine blue rivers and lakes that winds through Alaska's breathtaking Brooks Range mountains has been starting to look a little... 11818
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneSassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 10h🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank." 4044701275
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14hWe’re going to flip a Senate seat in Florida! Join us tomorrow to meet @angieforfl.bsky.social and learn about her people-powered campaign. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... 7457127
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneCalifornia Public Banking Alliance @capublicbanking.bsky.social · 10hSF voters will decide this Nov if the city should lay the groundwork for the nation's 1st municipal public bank! Prop B would let SF keep tax dollars local to fund affordable housing & small businesses directly, all without raising taxes. www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...sfgate.comSF: Ballot Measure To Allow For Creation Of Public Bank Heads To VotersSan Francisco voters will be asked in November if the city should be allowed to set up a public bank and become the first in the nation to do so. 073
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneK🤦♀️𝘝 @kv417.bsky.social · 10hCaltech students organized a 'Mathathon' sponsored by Anthropic and OpenAI. Then came the backlash edsource.org?page_id=767141edsource.orgCaltech students organized a ‘Mathathon’ sponsored by Anthropic and OpenAI. Then came the backlashCaltech undergrads organized a math competition sponsored by AI companies, prompting global backlash from mathematicians. Instead, students redesigned the event to help answer the question of what rol... 021
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneianneilschmidt1.bsky.social @ianneilschmidt1.bsky.social · 10hThe USPS is making it really difficult for citizens to trust them at all! 081
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneBlue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 11hA heavily Democratic electorate, in other words... bluevirginia.us/2026/09/wedn... 0207
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneAmerican Friction @americanfric.bsky.social · 14hTech billionaires are manipulating the White House – and A.I. 'regulation' is a key part of that. @jeffjarvis.bsky.social explains more to @jacobjarvis.bsky.social listen to the full episode here ➡️ linktr.ee/americanfriction 01910
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13h😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...share.googleSupreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchasesOpposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land. 35352225
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneSARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 17h🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste. 12347081487
Reposted by ConvergenceZonePeter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 14hGot my ballot yesterday and VOTED! ONLY 33 more days until the MIDTERMS. Goto Vote.org & check your status, make a plan, and have everyone you know do the same. We need EVERY voice voting. This election will decide the future of our Democracy. 💙🗳️ 414360
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h“Unites States” 🤦🏼 Can’t wait to read Jake Tapper’s book about this 70655184
Reposted by ConvergenceZonezauberberg.bsky.social @zauberberg.bsky.social · 14h My new favourite news agency! 😎 😎 😎 072
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 13hAt this point I would honestly prefer that the UK authorities said nothing on this than they kept dribbling out cryptic clues like it's a murder mystery evening. "What if I told you one of them rang 999 himself?" "We've bailed them, but it's still Iran, what might that mean?" Not. Helpful. 612915
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneBobby Ray Stacy @bobby-ray-stacy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026. For the first time in 20 years of stickin' it to the man under various guises and through various iterations across the internet while being blacklisted and shadow banned the whole time, I am coming home to Bluesky under my own real name. Now I am working at transferring my articles to Substack. . 416163
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 13hNithya impressed the fuck outta me 3527
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneDr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/09/2026If you’re tired of South Carolina being the butt of a joke, vote for change this November. 918968
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.” 13685522773
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17hOnce you've got more money than you could ever spend, what's the point of earning another dollar? From my conversation with @RobinsonErhardt.bsky.social 5940795
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneCarolyn Salter MD @salterfortexas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is truly awful. 283
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneseedleaf.bsky.social @seedleaf.bsky.social · 13h"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino #Quote via zenquotes.io 021
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h“Epic Systems, the nation’s largest medical records vendor that is relied on by thousands of hospitals and doctors’ offices, is using artificial intelligence tools to patch security risks that could give hackers undetectable access to patient health data, company officials said.”nytimes.comMedical Records Firm Uses AI Tool to Expose Flaws that Threaten Patient PrivacyEpic’s engineers deployed an Anthropic tool that exposed security risks that could allow undetected access to millions of patient records. 43216
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneErica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 15hIn San Francisco, Lurie's RV ban—on which Dan Strauss' similar proposed ban in Seattle appears to be modeled—hasn't gotten people into shelter, but it has pushed them outside city limits, often after losing their RVs and becoming unsheltered. Is this what "success" will look like here?missionlocal.orgS.F. cracked down on RV dwellers. A year later, many have left the city altogether.Data shows that a year after San Francisco's RV ban, 1/3 of RV dwellers using city aid have moved outside city limits. 1326078
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneDrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds. “The choices that Trump regime has made since 1/2025 have increased the number of people who die in the field and in custody,” immigration atty and investigative journalist. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comThree deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surgeThese men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign 6259156
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneRuben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Republicans partied to Disco Song 🎶Gloria🎶 And hunted Mike Pence on January 6th. This is the most insulting and disgusting video of January 6th! #Midterms #Jan6 #Gloria #USDemocracy #Republicans #Vote #Vota #VotoLatino #Talarico #BlueWave #votematters 22114
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneFreedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 16hRFK Jr. pushed out most Dept. of Health & Human Services staff, but legal action from Public Citizen forced NIOSH to rehire its team. A massive win for workplace safety. NIOSH is essential for protecting U.S. workers from illness, injury & death at work.dlvr.itSupport our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists 073
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneGood Samaritan @goodsamaritanhq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Being an adult is mostly saying “after this week things should calm down” until you die. I’ve been saying it since 2007. At this point I’m beginning to suspect there may not actually be a calm week. Just different themed disasters with occasional snacks. 58522
Reposted by ConvergenceZonebythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 18hThe gist of the Jack Smith hearing was that Republicans will fabricate evidence to entrap opponents and they were upset that Jack Smith had the audacity to investigate Republicans in Congress for possibly abetting Trump's 1/6 insurrection, in other words for doing his job. 541277333
Reposted by ConvergenceZone4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 19hIf Jack Smith ran the DOJ, half the Trump administration would already be in prison. 2031164
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneThe Independent @the-independent.com · 18hViral slow zoom on Katie Britt says it all as she realizes Jack Smith gotcha moment is going up in flames More here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... 614143
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneSolidarity @unheardnomore.bsky.social · 18hJack Smith would be a great U.S. Attorney General. We could make it happen. Get loud, educate, volunteer, protest, boycott and VOTE! 052
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17hIf you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt. 772823851
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneThat Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 19hWhy are our congressional “leaders” so embarrassingly wrong all the time?!? 1559
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 18hEric Schmitt is just one laughable microcosm of a world in which the current GOP is constantly making car-shaped compilations from mismatched Legos. They then throw their construction against the wall and present themselves as raging righteously against the machine. 118419
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneStoneball @stoneballs.bsky.social · 17h#NYT and #WaPo went out of their way to downplay it, while nearly every other news outlet gave it big play. Why? For WaPo, bc they couldn't align it with Bezos' "both sides" obsession? For NYT, bc Schmitt opposes any military restraint on Israel? I'm hardly the only one asking these Qs, btw. 041
Reposted by ConvergenceZonePeabody Unshakened McSquints @failingup.bsky.social · 19h"Senator Schmitt Shows Whole Ass with Total Lack of Ball Knowledge" 072
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneJon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 17hSince my pundit superpower as a Gen Xer is "remembering shit that happened," I'll point out that, when presidential candidate John Kerry referred to the Green Bay Packers' stadium as "Lambert Field" instead of "Lambeau Field," the same people excusing Schmitt viewed that as disqualifying. 0366
Reposted by ConvergenceZonewakandangriot.bsky.social @wakandangriot.bsky.social · 19hTranslating and sane washing the circumstances of what should be a career ending imbroglio. Terrible. 021
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 19hAmazing photo but the headline here is, imo, needlessly indirect, and it surprises me that Senator Schmitt, the person responsible for the embarrassing ”Hawks-Hawkeyes mix-up,” isn’t mentioned by name in the headline. 1314819
Reposted by ConvergenceZone@sawsharee.Baku.social @sawsharee.bsky.social · 19hThank You Erin Burnett For Bringing The Receipts! Mixing Up The HAWKS With The HAWKEYES And Then Calling Jack Smith “A TOTAL DIRTBAG!” Senator Eric Schmitt Is A Disgrace And An Embarrassment To The U.S. Senate And The State Of Missouri! Do You Agree? 810936
Reposted by ConvergenceZoneReese Ackerman (human) @reeseackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026True story: asked AI to add a collection of numbers. Not calculus. Not geometry. Not Algebra. Add. Some. Numbers. Here. They. Are. WRONG ANSWER. But please let's have AI have access to the codes. 1178