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David Call

@davidscall.bsky.social
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actor / filmmaker / woodworker / flyfisherman / jeep cherokee xj rescuer / guy from that thing t.co/qnDCAFxwGV

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h
it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing
screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h
INCREDIBLE
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 3h
Everyone in politics and media does spooky voice about high corporate taxes and high top marginal rates, and then you look up the period of history where we had that and it's called ~the golden age of capitalism~
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 6h
It's a fascinating mistake bc it is rooted in the 100% GOP confidence that there was a coordinated legal attack on Trump from Biden/Garland etc. It follows that Smith must have been colluding with Willis to help her out. The idea that he has integrity and wouldn't do that is off the board.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 6h
He's simply interrogating space and embodiment through kinetic performance
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 6h
bro are you five
Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6h
I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversight
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Trump releases AI accord with tech executives
President Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord ​on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by ‌him and tech executives that he met...
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 7h
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 11h
Most TV is just this now.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 7h
This question should be central to the debate over AI and data centers: why is it that the largest private infrastructure project in world history is undercutting workers rather than creating jobs?
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One More Reason Americans Hate AI: It Does Nothing for Them
Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 9h
Quick reminder that Ralph Nader had zero impact on the electoral outcome of the 2000 election, which Bush didn't win anyway He was gifted the presidency by the supreme court, a decision Al Gore immediately accepted for some reason
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h
the populist is not an ornery man yearning to be free. he is a slave whose truest, most fulsome desire is to ask "who is my master?" and "what shall I do, master?" at every point
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 8h
Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 9h
Using the consternation about gas prices to lay the groundwork for a winning vision moving forward is fantastic. (And I wish JT had done that about trans rights, too.)
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 8h
Congressional staffers are going to need a lot of help understanding procurement and the inner workings of the bureaucracy to effectively hold people accountable. They have the incentives to do so, but need sources. I have been told this explicitly, and if you have that expertise — Reach out.
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Haydon @haydonmp.bsky.social · 8h
This is probably easier than you’d think too. The Trump II people that are leading the enterprise haven’t been careful and many of them are implicated in things they simply thought would never come up again. Federal workers have kept a ledger, and members of Congress’ phones are open.
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 9h
thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 8h
Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.
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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 17h
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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 29/09/2026
These are not products of an effective design process. Instead of starting with a purpose and finding the best way to satisfy it they are starting with a behemoth existing material and desperately trying to find ways to make it useful. This is anti-design.
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alygory @alygory.bsky.social · 20h
One of those hyper realistic fan versions of Homer Simpson
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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 18h
I regret to inform you that Aaron Sorkin got stuck in the microwave again
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 17h
i’m an herbalist and a healer. allow me to tend to your wounds with this poultice recipe passed down from several generations of 1.8 GPAs
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21h
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h
its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see
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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 18h
This headline from @deadline.com is gross. Disney wasn't hit with anything. The studio just fucked hundreds of its employees.
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 18h
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 22h
you can see re: the ruling on the NYC pied-a-terre tax vs the upcoming Medicaid changes - who is not expected to prove things to the government/who the government is expected to do the leg work for vs. who is expected to prove and document everything to the government
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 20h
Dude screwed up so badly, he is getting murdered on the other site.
Screenshot of an X post by Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt), timestamped 6:54 PM on Sep 29, 2026. The post reads: “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” Below it, a Readers proposed context note says: “Still gathering ratings” and “Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury during his congressional testimony because Eric did not know the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes,” followed by a truncated NBC News link.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20h
Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 20h
I wouldn’t stop suing until my name was on every building the school has and every trustee had to write me a personal check.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h
80% serious: some influencer should get a couple historians and natsec scholars on to watch and react to this anti-FBI TV series live
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Eric Freeman @freemaneric.bsky.social · 21h
I probably won’t see Digger but it would’ve been an A+ Letterman topic. “Hey Paul, uh, you seen Digger?” etc.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 21h
Prayers up for my buddy Eric Schmitt! After a tough day at work he forgot to pull his pants down before taking a shit & had to waddle home as loose turds periodically fell out of his pant leg.
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 22h
📹: Animals Asia
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h
This is a list of all the people who are going to be getting bailed out with your tax money. I guarantee it. Not tough to call this shot.
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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 22h
we are definitely already past the point where someone has tried to and most likely been successful in having sex with the america dot gov chatbot
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22h
The Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h
PROBLEM SOLVE CASE CLOSE
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Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution"
President Trump and the leaders of the country's largest artificial intelligence companies have signed a set of voluntary safety standards, as calls mount for tighter guardrails on powerful AI technol...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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David Call @davidscall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this seems.. bad
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 2018, Annalinda Martinez and her daughters became homeless. She went to Georgia's child welfare agency looking for help finding housing. Instead, the state took her children. Then DFCS began charging her for their foster care. Those bills eventually left her $13,000 in debt.
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Georgia removed her kids because she was homeless. The state is charging her $13,000 for foster care
Georgia is among several states that have moved away from charging parents for their kids' time in foster care. But parents who already owe money for past cases are still on the hook.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know people in every industry saying "I need to get out of this industry".
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