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It’s notable that the snake oil people see great potential in AI

It really does feel like Fincher lost his touch after this deal. How much of that was him, or Netflix, or some combination, I can’t tell. But I hope he has a few more in him

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5h

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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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 5h

lol CBP is such a fascist project that they are now operating like it’s the presidents personal organization.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 7h

Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 7h

My latest: Why are hitman movies such a perennial genre? I make the case that they're workplace competency porn. medium.com/the-berger-d... #booksky #movies #thepopeshitman #thrillers

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The Hitman Genre as Workplace Competency Porn

It’s nice that they’re good at their jobs.

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 7h

It’s true that they are trying to consolidate power. It’s also true that by doing so, they undercut the absolute power they may potentially wield if they succeed.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21h

imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the thing is, I don’t want to have to discern whether the person responding to me is real or a fucking chatbot. Seriously, if a friend used a bot to text me, I would stop being their friend. That’s a shit thing to do!

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This ad for Meta’s Muse is a perfect encapsulation of what’s wrong with tech. Not only does it not solve the problem it says it does (you still have to reply to the robot), but actively makes it worse (the robot is now the middle man between humans).

Ad for meta’s muse. “Muse makes replying easy”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my feeling about this is that if you reframe "engineering" into "how to responsibly build, manage, and maintain large scale systems essential to public welfare" then it is really obvious why it is essential to a republican model of government

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good piece from @dgraham.bsky.social on how the failure to appoint people to key positions undermines Trump's ability to get things done. The mass gutting of civil service positions compounds the problem. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Absences Haunting the Trump Administration

The president has left hundreds of appointed roles open—including those that would have a central role in implementing his priorities.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"since vanilla is such a pure, straightforward flavor, recipe developers have to work extra hard to make it good, because they can’t hide behind chunks, chips, swirls, or other flavors" This is why I find it funny when we people think vanilla is boring. A good vanilla is worth it's weight in gold.

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also skeptical, but either way it’s clear by now that their plans for some sort of totalitarian state is falling apart.

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For context, this is not because AI is too smart to be contained. This is a result of two things being true at once: 1. AI companies have inadvertently become well-resourced hacking campaigns because of negligence 2. Organizations around the world have neglected their vulnerability programs

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a revelation to me. Are most history depts not already "service depts"? I assumed they were. In any given year I might teach 500 students, most of them in the intro surveys, and maybe 25 of those 500 are history majors. But it's important to note how admins set these classes up to fail.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is excellent modern journalism. A century ago, a newspaper would publish a muckraking article. Then a pol could get quotes into the paper in response. That was slow turnaround. Now subjects of articles go on TV and social media to counterspin. And @propublica.org is rapidly responding. Great!

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a security person, at what point do we just raise our hands and say social security numbers are no longer useful for identification purposes

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 26/09/2026

Once again, software does not “go rogue,” as it has no intent or agency. OpenAI’s management and employees, however, have both, and are where investigations for liability should immediately begin. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)

The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Immune to hallucinations” no that’s not true. It will hallucinate in the code and be even more opaque about it.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026

This is the woman who said that Talarico’s in favor of “same sex bathrooms”, and getting that kind of lunatic to stay home is how you win an election in Texas

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026

*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

finding and trying to establish a real connection btwn my work and audiences has been a part of my job since early web2 times. but i have always noticed that, when my irl community feels strong/supportive i have so little pull to post/social. but whenever i feel more alone social has a pull. fwiw

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My theory about this is, because people generally lean one way more than the other, there’s an implicit fear that bi partners secretly lean towards the opposite sex than the people they are currently dating. In other words, if a bi person is 51-49%, people are afraid of being in the 49% camp.

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Everyone is focusing on women not dating bi men. The head scratcher for me is other bi men not dating bi men. Rough!

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looking forward to the McDonald’s lounge next time I go to the airport

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So much of “AI hacked us!” is gonna be simply ppl don’t understand they linked files to the open internet

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah it’s not that these AIs are escaping containment. It’s that these AIs aren’t contained in the first place.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 23/09/2026

One of my long-standing complaints with the pro-AI world is how their complaint that anti-AI people and the left "need better critics" is clearly a reflection of themselves not having read the actual critical work on AI, and instead repeating social media memes as a strawman for actual critique.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

great advice in general but doubly so if you're going to spend any significant amount of time on social media

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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane has another Platinum album, as Blue Train joins A Love Supreme! Only a few instrumental jazz artists are in the Platinum club (Brubeck, Hancock among them. Miles has three. Let’s agree to leave out Kenny G.)

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is funny, but also a good reminder that people with crazy views often have crazier ideas of how things work

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This sentiment harkens back to early colonial times when openly running for office was seen as something of a disqualifier. In other words, the idea of a politician reluctantly answering the call of their times is a very American ideal.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026

They even made DoorDash apologize.

DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.

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Kevin @doubleohkevin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If anyone feels any sort of imposter syndrome, just know that the big whigs of industry are shocked to discover that burning their customers and firing their employees was a bad business decision.

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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

yeah look, making this guy gush about you is a massive propaganda coup. and again, last time he did this he got several NYCers freed from ICE immediately. he has material needs to deliver for NYC to protect them from fascism. he ain't smiling and praising Trump, he's making Trump like him.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

ALSO HELLO DEMOCRATS 80% favorability on impeachment????????

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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