Reposted by Dan RobitzskiChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase 12559701617
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiArtie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Wrote about data centers and social murder blindarchive.substack.com/p/indifferen...blindarchive.substack.comIndifference enginesBrief thoughts on AI and data centers 14619
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"In an age where Americans are beginning to feel political outrage against a corrupt oligarchy that seems to be literally stealing from us, where everything in American life seems to be an insider-trading grift, the AI industry is a perfect and obvious villain." 021
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiSpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft....spacenews.comKatalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboostKatalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft. 01712
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...nytimes.comWhat Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills. 6436561193
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Fix your hearts or die? Sure. But also: Fix your hearts and live. Fixing involves doing the work, not having work done for you. People can build the path of liberation from patriarchy, but they can't walk it for you. So, walk the path. Do the work. Be a *man.* www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...the-reframe.comFix Your Hearts or DieIt's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism. 9494143
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiJacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I absolutely love this genre of story where an adult tells us that a book commonly assigned to high schoolers it too hard for them to understand, so they have to ask the hallucination bot to dumb it down for them 1132
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...404media.co‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co... 151621836
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Usually, Google Earth is an exceptionally useful tool for ... analysts to digitally monitor areas of interest and see how they change over time, say, during a conflict or disaster. Now, Google Earth can easily be used as a tool for disinformation." @404media.co www.404media.co/google-earth...404media.coGoogle Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam." 010
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Tesla autopilot turning off right before a crash 000
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026We can't let trivial matters like clean air and water get in the way of progress spacenews.com/proposed-rul...spacenews.comProposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulationsThe Department of Transportation is proposing to exempt commercial space launch licensing from many environmental regulations. 000
Reposted by Dan Robitzskie.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/07/2026about to engage in self-harm (watch the entire Elon Musk Economist interview) 34104080
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiJohn R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species "Cuts" is a massive understatement. "Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...nytimes.comTrump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered SpeciesThe rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals. 22121
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiAlissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026And an ongoing reminder that ICE kidnappings have been up nationwide, including in LA, during the World Cup. LA's Immigrant Defenders Law Center received 900 calls in June, the second-highest number in a year. "These things are still happening. They're just not happening at SoFi Stadium"laist.comDuring World Cup, LA advocates have received uptick in calls for help with ICEDespite concerns, ICE has not been conducting visible enforcement at the tournament. But immigration arrests are continuing elsewhere. 115684
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Media day at Swordplay LA a few weeks ago! (How many workplaces have you fight your boss for content?) 000
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 24/06/2026At my previous job, LabX fired or otherwise ousted the entire journalism team so they could do veiled advertorials instead. Bad news for the industry! 1105
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiMeghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵) 711212357
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiDan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.comgroup.springernature.comSpringer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer NatureStrategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development 93961574
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Springer Nature has sold Scientific American to LabX. This is genuinely terrible news for the state of science journalism. 020
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 15/06/2026I had some thoughts on the press coverage of the SpaceX IPOkarlbode.comThe SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist HucksterOnce again a broken U.S. press couldn't bother to convey the truth to the public when it comes to America's shittiest rich person. 601883644
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiPatrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026What timeline are we on where the man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people becomes a trillionaire a year later? Because it’s not one I think people are going to sit back and swallow www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...currentaffairs.orgHow Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of PeopleFormer USAID global health official Nicholas Enrich explains the catastrophic human toll of DOGE's cuts to the agency. 02313
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"If it takes 75 solid minutes of poorly rendered murders to make you feel something, you may already be dead." 053
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Great new series of essays on the @supertrashed.bsky.social blog, where we ask: what's the first video game you owned? Super Trashed TV also asks, accidentally: how did that first tiny domino that fell in your childhood make you the person you are today? www.supertrashed.tv/news-item/fi...supertrashed.tvFirst Owned GamesThe Super Trashed Crew reminiscences about the video games that shaped their sense of self and sovereignty. 022
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiAlissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Four U.S. military "training exercises" in Pasadena, Long Beach, City of Industry, and Irvine during the last two nights. Only a few hours of notice to residents. Which lucky SoCal city is going to be kept up until 2 a.m. by gunfire and helicopters tonight? 87630
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 05/06/2026"If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it? It’s insulting but, more than that, it’s depressing. Writing, especially in opinion, is about individual voice." www.cityam.com/there-should...cityam.comThere should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slopCity AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough. 020
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026www.welcometohellworld.com/they-want-us...welcometohellworld.comThey Want Us DeadAcclimation to mass death—and the devaluing of humanity in general—is their primary purpose 000
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction. 23980452824
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...404media.coYour AI Use Is Breaking My BrainAI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy. 521772511
Reposted by Dan Robitzskimolly taft @mollytaft.com · 13/05/2026btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now 31939408
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Roses are red, It would cost $30 billion to give every American a home. Candy is sweet, spacenews.com/congressiona...spacenews.comCongressional Budget Office estimates $1.2 trillion price tag for Golden DomeCongressional Budget Office estimates $1.2 trillion price tag for Golden Dome Congressional Budget Office estimates $1.2 trillion price tag for Golden Dome 011
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog... 10346051227
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Whoops! spacenews.com/falcon-9-roc...spacenews.comFalcon 9 rocket stage projected to impact moon’s near side in AugustFalcon 9 rocket stage projected to impact moon’s near side in August A spent Falcon 9 stage used to launch a pair of commercial lunar landers is projected to impact the moon Aug. 5, according to astro... 000
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026These creeps have a type! www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...scientificamerican.comWant to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It SoonDespite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies 010
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/04/2026I genuinely think there's something deeply wrong with anyone who finds this idea remotely appealing 2745463
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever 6863601548
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South. 340122985046
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Huge news for people who will never leave the country 000
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I just published this deep dive about Bruce Springsteen and America and freedom and you and me and … all this. www.findinggravity.net/bruce-spring...findinggravity.netBruce Springsteen’s Chimes of FreedomMeet me in a dream of this hard land 2021959
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 24/04/2026My running list of "celebrities I've never liked" remains unbeatable 010
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 24/04/2026"Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...currentaffairs.orgThe Banal Horror of Jimmy FallonUnder the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture. 110
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/04/2026How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”. 121312497
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiCJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 22/04/2026You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social 6359972282
Dan Robitzski @danrobitzski.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The Artemis 2 crew safely splashed down! spacenews.com/orion-splash...spacenews.comOrion splashes down to successfully end Artemis 2 missionThe first human mission beyond Earth orbit in more than 50 years successfully concluded with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean April 10. 000
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiBrad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 04/04/2026If this stands, then Trump has effectively dissolved Congress's budget authority, which is most of its authority.whitehouse.govLiberating the Department of Homeland Security From the Democrat-Caused ShutdownMEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT: Liberating the Department of Homeland 11373140
Reposted by Dan RobitzskiMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.thehandbasket.coRefusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism'Humans, however flawed, are 321925530