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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 9h

While this is true, it's not what anyone is talking about. Literally no one is pointing at retirement savings and saying "That's the problem! The plumber saved their money!" We're pointing at people who live off extraction rather than labor.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 11h

Narrator: Of course not all soldiers are now classified as warriors. Fatties, weirdos, beardos and the like will be sent on special missions to prevent them from voting.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 13h

It's becoming increasingly plausible to argue that the 1970s was the most consequential decade in human history. The backlash to relatively weak civil and economic rights in the US in the 1960s is resulting in the destruction of a planet.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 13h

One of the most important changes if we ever pull out of this nose dive is to remove the Limited Liability like ability for government actors to commit illegal acts without personal repercussions. "I didn't do it, the agency did" "I didn't do it, the AI did" All these legal fictions need to go.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“.. Tech payrolls have fallen to the lowest level since December 2020.” - Schwab

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember when they floated the idea of paying a fee to get a job interview? Somebody get sequoia capital on the phone. Seems Like we're ready for that now.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Civility is how we let these ghouls get this far.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What this looked like in practice: People came to the class excited or at least mildly interested in learning what an ai agent could do for them. The trainers came to help people train an agent for their known specific cases. Everyone quickly realized that there wasn’t much middle ground.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is one of the biggest points. This concept is foreign even to most in the corporate world. They *think* they've done it, but as soon as you go to build them software to do "the task" you realize 80% of your work is helping them figure out how the task is *actually* accomplished.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Granted I'm still in the middle of the book so there is a potential "hammer/nail" issue, but I think @annakornbluh.bsky.social 's book Immediacy really speaks to the larger context of this symptom being produced by the current form of our socioeconomic production system.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Because "automata studies" wasn't sexy enough.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gotta say I find this just as disingenuous or delusional as the rest of'm. If this is true, it's an incredibly cowardly response. "I couldn't even just walk away, I had to make sure my absence would have zero negative impact on their plan to destroy humanity... out of respect" 🙄

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Lifeboat @biglifejacket.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Intercept of Xi report: "Just bought Manhattan for trinkets...getting Taiwan for free. No restrictions buying Iranian oil as long as we don't announce it. I have to say these words: 'The president is a tough negotiator, but we trust him. The ballroom is going to be splendid.' "

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 24/09/2026

Write today and demand your members of Congress reject a liability shield for the fossil fuel industry. Take action: act.ucs.org/4iG87AS Learn more in our Decades of Deceit timeline: act.ucs.org/3TOOwEv

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Holy hell! For fun I was looking into what it'd be like to move into a career in therapy/counseling. I could start in a Masters program, but even then we're talking 6 to 8 years, between degree and required work hours, before being able to take the licensing exam.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seems Democrats, even some DSA members, are just as eager to slap the "socialism" label on plainly capitalist actions as Republicans are. I'd love 30 minutes with him to explain how Adam Smith literally thought the concept of Limited Liability would destroy the world.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

new idea "one email a day" you should only be able to send or read one email a day

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

two years gone, forever here

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 22/09/2026

Newsom is a dipshit, a thread:

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Len @len.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Folding Obsidian into Bethesda really demonstrates how interchangeable we all are to the money people. Who cares about studio culture or identity, right? If I put tuna on a meatball sub I can eat two sandwiches at once.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Woke 2.0 must make this policy national and increase the quality of these meals. Something is far better than nothing, but those photos look nothing like the school lunches here, where we have universal meals. Universalist policies must be truly universal. Everyone should want to eat these meals.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is why the idea of some liberals to "focus on Republicans" is bullshit. Some think "focus on the ones doing the harm, not those with no power" is better, but Democrats are doing significant harm. I think we should *always* be focused on those without power. Like trans people.

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Never forget this was Newsom and Bonta that surrendered to the Ellisons. bsky.app/profile/kent...

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This reminds me of thought experiment I used to play wrt the rights of nature: Why do we draw the line above bacteria and other germs?

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My journey towards true self knowledge (so far) 20s - people suck 30s - I suck 40s - everyone sucks to varying degrees, but that suckage does not validate or justify the suckage of any other party

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

eh, winning the civil war was actually a huge deal and the re-installation of real centralized government authority after decades of war was so huge even if his domestic policy largely sucked, it still lead to a massive increase in life expectancy over the course of his rule

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This whole line of thought terminating argument seems aimed at ensuring no one can learn any positives of alternative economic and political ideologies. So silly and fundamentally reactionary. Your periodic reminder that conservatives are liberals too.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

today in cultural decline gambling eclipses arts and entertainment combined film box office $8.87B recorded music $11.5B live music $18.51B books $14.6B museums $16.4B add it up: $70B less than half of the $166B Americans wagered on sports fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

fortune.com

Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pretty wild that my life has been somewhat periodized by the revelations that the huge corporations knew of their harms all along. Tobacco Oil Dotcom Social Media AI One thinks we could stop taking them at their word by now.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse...

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hah, where have we heard this before?

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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dude has his finger on the pulse of a nation.

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 17/09/2026

It’s telling that concern about tech fascism is so great it literally led to the republishing of a book that was all but forgotten, from a journalist who was pushed out of covering tech specifically because she was so critical It wasn’t just out of print, it was very difficult to get copies too

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So cool that this has a new edition! I've only heard people talk about it like an ancient legend.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In what universe does giving rich psychopaths craving power more money make them want less money? I want to go there, 'cause it ain't this one.

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 17/09/2026

Godot contributors and Godot Foundation people are really good people, ya’ll. There’s so much goodwill and best effort action, many of their efforts unpaid, under-appreciated, and invisible. Please continue to send them kindness. And donate a bit of what you can spare. fund.godotengine.org

fund.godotengine.org

Godot Development Fund

Join the Development Fund and support the Godot Foundation to work on Godot Engine.

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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Iran's Chief Negotiator throughout the entire conflict has now begun to Economics Shitpost like me. I don't even know what to do with myself anymore. The world makes sense to me but is almost entirely untranslatable to virtually any average person.

Straits Taylor Rule:

i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*) + α(SOH−SOH*) + β(BEM−BEM*), α,β > 0

Let’s see if a hike could open SOH or produce a single barrel :)

You can’t 25bp a chokepoint and r* isn’t neutral. It’s SOH risk premium, and We set it.

Stay unanchored !

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't know what to say other than read this absolutely bizarre thread to get a detailed view of what I previously thought was just extremely goofy EA nerds but now see is in fact a cult, attempting to capture the regulatory apparatus not for normal wealth extraction, but to satisfy a doom cult.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the most positive things I've seen in a long time. Can we get the eyes of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @linamkhan.bsky.social on this, since they seem to be the only ones capable of actually improving things these days? fixvx.com/joakial_/sta...

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Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 (@joakial_) on X

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine what this genius could do withOpenAI's magical accounting math.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 16/09/2026

The smart phone and the personal digital assistant not as liberatory devices, but as an ankle monitor for your mind.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Funding genocide in the style of the AI bubble.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Haha, yes, I totally believe that this slow down is about your fear of the power of your creation 🙄 You're totally *not* using "Anti AI Communism" to enable regulatory capture. Sure, whatever you say.

- Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist.
- One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is full AI communism, which is precisely what China proposes: rather than a market product, Al is a "public good" which will ultimately be provided by the state as a kind of "digital public infrastructure." This future strikes me as a dystopian hellscape.
- The Trump Administration will at some point realize that their best strategy here would be to create large amounts of regulatory risk around the use of open-weight Chinese models.

Dean W. Ball,
Head of Strategic Futures, OpenAI

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of the easiest ways to spot someone that's full of shit is when they put out some precise number, like a percentage, that they couldn't possibly have calculated in any way. If one is ok communicating in hand waving nonsense, their analysis is likely the same level of rigor.

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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why anyone would take these guys at their word is beyond me. More likely that they see a) the datacenter pushback as existential to the bubble, b) the non-profitably as existential to investment, and c) the reporting of their incompetence as existential to their PR hype machine.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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