Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026they did the thing 254162513719
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books. 291161183
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is the action of a bunch of people who absolutely need this to pay off or they're toast. This is also why they're getting in good with Trump doing that whole "AI committee" with Dario and Zuck and Musk and Altman. They know plan B is the taxpayer bailout. 616036
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026Per Reuters, Anthropic has $252 billion in non-cancelable compute obligations across Microsoft, Google and Amazon, and $161.2 billion in Broadcom TPU lease obligations that are "largely non-cancelable". Truly insane. $413 billion in non-cancelable contracts. www.reuters.com/business/ant... 2743378
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialFr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 242162454231
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026The before and after it's even more haunting. 3529111648
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7779151410
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14095462208
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground” 20688312
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026 205370736
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026International student visa applications and approvals, Canada 2022-2025. We're down 90% on where we were three years ago. Given that intl student fees brought in about $14B at their peak, we're looking at the potential loss by 2028 of $12B of PSE income (or about 16% of the total). 44621
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialKill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this. 107265584387
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This is the mood of your electorate. Match it or lose. www.gadgetreview.com/salem-brough...gadgetreview.comSalem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'.Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents — and a guillotine — pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility. 151034313
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/08/2026"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks! 98145433383
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialamy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 28/07/2026kids, i have something exciting to tell you. I just financed a cybertruck through x the everything app. also your mom left 114212600
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The multi-billionaire CEO of Shopify thinks a “good system” is one where the poor don’t get to vote in elections and the rich get to vote several times over. I wish I was kidding. Oh, and guess what? This guy and his pals are trying to influence our politics -- and they're arguably succeeding: 26425164
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/07/2026really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people 524349945
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph. 415159743942
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 09/07/2026the thing about empathy is that if you have it, you know you have it, and if you don’t have it, you don’t care to 0446
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 05/07/2026i think the cybertruck is the first relatively commonplace thing that has not gotten any less funny, ugly and contemptible after seeing it enough times. almost any other dumb tacky thing eventually fades into the background. not this one 1531724
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialChristian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history. 174167732317
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The Ellisons now own TikTok, Paramount, Warner Bros, CBS News, HBO, Comedy Central, and CNN, among other major channels. They are also the largest private donor to "Friends of the IDF." They also paid $7 billion for streaming rights to UFC, which is hosting an event at the White House. 52655772928
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 12/06/2026being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating 8986291812
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I consider it a violation of my personal human rights to have to look at an ad at basically any time 3258721555
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded. 17044952553
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and... 11678892021
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialHumanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026This is real resistance. 519771
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Eroding the social safety net, privatizing airports, ending pharmacare, hundreds of millions cut from Indigenous services, postal service on life support, billions in welfare to big tech for data centers, bullets still shipping to Israel... Can't put into words how right wing this government is 12330106
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit. 366136482366
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world. 16147382231
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialLiberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 03/05/2026And with this I bid you adieu. 2594149
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialRedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children." 266176766050
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Good Lord. Now that the Ontario estimates are up it's possible to get a better picture of what the Conserative government actually did this year on higher education funding. An extra $1.3 billion for post-secondary institutions. A 22% increase. I have never seen that in my whole life. 7215
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that. 12174181093
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Romance is hard when you're not willing to settle for anything less than someone who's way outta your league 3696789
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialJesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement. www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...npr.orgFamilies left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youthMassachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care. 21001419
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 07/04/2026I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine 198139972544
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this. 17188391293
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialBobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft 8358641936
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialAndré Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Farewell to one of Canada’s greatest social justice champions. Stephen Lewis was a movement leader, a brilliant orator, and Canada’s most consequential UN ambassador, by @sethdklein.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/31/o... via @nationalobserver.comnationalobserver.comFarewell to one of Canada’s greatest social justice championsStephen Lewis was a movement leader, a brilliant orator, one of Canada's most consequential UN ambassadors and a driver of change for HIV/AIDS patients. 06415
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/03/2026"A University of Oregon study found that when states legalize sports betting, intimate partner violence increases by roughly 10 percentage points after upset NFL losses." yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/gambling-i...yourbrainonmoney.substack.comYou don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your lifeHow gambling is eroding empathy, destroying relationships, and changing our culture — even for people who never bet. 631669736
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25/03/2026i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!! 31130153579
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialSean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down. 9945141036
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialskáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026it's okay to socially ostracize parents who won't vaccinate themselves or their children, in fact we should be doing it as a rule 191107207
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 03/03/2025they should make a country that doesn’t suck 743338
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Ending nine wars [lowers sunglasses to look you dead in the eye] and starting ten new ones. 301876190
Reposted by @dpenfold.bsky.socialWill Murray @willmurray.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Sure, it's mindlessly getting into another war in the Middle East with no clue or idea what happens next, but at least it's being run by the most ignorant, unintelligible, morons on the planet. 15216
