Reposted by David KaufmanMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1hWouldn't it be "cruel and unusual punishment" to livestream an execution? I know it's quaint to bring up the Constitution, but some of us still support it. 3124356
Reposted by David KaufmanWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 6hAnd, after all the other horrible things about this, if this goes through, it will be counter-productive. It will make Hasan a martyr and will be used by terrorist groups around the world to justify their own public executions. Mark my words, we will see Americans killed on TV because of this. 1617048
Reposted by David KaufmanDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 5hWe're literally exhausting the resources we need to feed ourselves, in the soil under our feet... 01614
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Stunningly incoherent. And in the same breath he's confessing to outcome-based jurisprudence. What a legend. 000
Reposted by David KaufmanNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 161486387
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026... I promise you that if it comes to pass, I will never spend a cent on the online subscription again. And I will be loud (and, I hope, persuasive) about it. Best regards ..." 000
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026...but I follow as a full subscriber to mlb.tv pretty much every year. I'm contacting you in alarm about the news at apnews.com/article/wyom.... To make it short and plain, I find the idea atrocious.... 100
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We write letters. To more than one MLB public relations department, in this case. One such: "Hello, I have many good memories of being a Cleveland baseball fan for a period of decades, and I'm enjoying the current era of the team very much. I don't live nearby anymore, ...apnews.comMLB considers Grand Teton National Park for baseball game site, prompting concernMajor League Baseball has been considering holding a game in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. An MLB official confirmed Monday that the idea was being discussed. 100
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Any chance it's like Queen Elizabeth bankrupting disfavored nobles? 🙃 000
Reposted by David KaufmanArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social 178124972677
Reposted by David Kaufmanhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out 743521757
Reposted by David KaufmanClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...youtu.beMUSK | Official Trailer HDYouTube video by Elevation Pictures 6354214
Reposted by David KaufmanDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 3024131512
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Thus Beckstead's version of cost-benefit analysis conveniently adds up the benefits and ignores the costs. P.S. His analysis of the benefits may be also be fairly dumb. 000
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Maybe if the tech lords and "visionaries" would value the moral restraint not to elevate one part of humanity over another, they would have moral restraint against burning the world down for the sake of their imagined utopias. 100
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can any serious case be made that the future and the potential of humanity is more in jeopardy from lack of "progress" or economic productivity than from lack of wisdom and decency? Hell no, say I. 111
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026His concept of net or comparative ripple effects says nothing about the moral harm we do to ourselves and everyone else by valuing the futures of one group of people more than the futures of another. 100
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To make the matter more concrete than merely "eww, disgusting", I argue that Beckstead's accounting is grossly incomplete. It's defective math. 100
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Searches find that there have already been some rejoinders similar to mine, but it's worth saying. Search also tells me that Beckstead (who is otherwise unknown to me) has subsequently expressed a less absolute position than this. Even so, I will declaim. 100
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It took a few days of mental simmering for my grievance (to put it mildly) against the thesis shown below to bubble up into a concrete rejoinder. 100
Reposted by David KaufmanKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Republican Project for literally my entire life has been to warn us that the Federal Government was Too Powerful and Overreaching and would Strip Our Freedoms and now they have gotten into lockstep behind this loon who's like "I might fuck around and ban muffins" 261745422
Reposted by David KaufmanPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This video is amazing. 416564
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I accept that any private citizen has the right to take that position. But the President of the United States? Thanks, Republicans. 000
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Read that again. They just come out and say that serving the public is not something Trump does because he's the President, or because he can. It's right out in the open that you have to bribe him with something or he won't help people. 100
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"The Board understands that without such appropriate recognition it is unlikely that President Trump will provide the fundamental oversight of the renovation of the main building and lead the fiscal rescue of the Center." 100
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is not the very latest news on the Kennedy Center, but it's worth noticing for how plainly it spells out Donald Trump's character. The Board wrote in a draft resolution: 100
Reposted by David KaufmanDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss 2234801349
Reposted by David KaufmanThe Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Seen a lot of these, but this one is my favourite 😎 27498682395
Reposted by David KaufmanJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 03/09/2026bernie sanders wants to "ban artificial superintelligence"? headline that 'old man yells at Claude' 1121530
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Friends who have Teslas, maybe drive the car yourself for a while?gizmodo.comAnother Tesla on Autopilot Stopped on Freeway, Driver Died: ReportThe vehicle stopped in live traffic and was rear-ended. 000
Reposted by David KaufmanKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Tell me again history doesn’t matternytimes.comOpinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech. 13459106
Reposted by David KaufmanMichael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026RIP Tim Curry, who had the range to star in the two greatest movies about a mutiny in the middle of a transatlantic sea voyage, and also the crew occasionally breaks into song 152044551
Reposted by David KaufmanEvil John 2: John By Dawn @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026She didn't die. She sailed West, to the Undying Lands and remained Galadriy'all. 61424295
Reposted by David KaufmanMo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸 1188872402
Reposted by David KaufmanDaryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals  i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that 289278923815
Reposted by David KaufmanGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 21/08/2026Trump is raising Minnesotans’ bills because they voted against him three times. www.twincities.com/2026/08/18/m...twincities.comMinnesota grant cancellations political, Trump administration concedesThe Trump administration admitted it canceled more than $7.5 billion in federal grants last October “based solely” on whether the projects were planned in Democratic states. 22763244
Reposted by David KaufmanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern? 795198317889
Reposted by David KaufmanVeronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This is being used to prevent Black and Brown kids from going to college as well. If you're in Algebra II but get sent back to pre-Algebra to help the school system game the system, no college is going to accept you, not a top college anyway: 0116
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Kudos for the event staffer who, in the last second of the video, does a perfect Carl Spackler. 000
Reposted by David KaufmanMRSPOURS @mrspours.bsky.social · 17/08/20262026 MN State Fair Crop Art entry "Witness" based on pStar Tribune photograph by Leila Navi with MPR reporter Sam Stroiza. 141736337
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I suggest leading with the crimes rather than the criminals. Make it a great rolling dashboard and inventory of the crimes first and foremost. The implicated actors would be referenced, of course, but maybe this would emphasize the honest use of prosecutory authority in a few minds? 2/2 000
David Kaufman @davidkaufman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A proposal (thread): I feel agreement but also discomfort when I see BlueSky posts calling for prosecutions (after the elections) of Republicans over the crimes they're committing in government. It's right, but it's also all too easy to conflate it with Trumpworld's corrupt prosecutions. 1/ 100
Reposted by David KaufmanDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"this edible ain't shit" two hours later: 185182554358
Reposted by David KaufmanKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Every country should have an Electrification Czar except that person should be called the Chargé d’Affaires d’Affaires de Charger. 420451
Reposted by David KaufmanHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now. 339164275444
Reposted by David KaufmanBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Thank you for the precedent, ICE. We will make good use of this in the future. 916655
Reposted by David KaufmanRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Trump just dismantled this so his blatant corruption and his cronies overseas can operate without consequences or detection. Organized crime is now legal and the US is open for exploitation by foreign and domestic criminals. Don’t expect Rubio to say a word. 18649741955
