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WITS END @pisst.bsky.social · 9h

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 01/10/2026

The flow of power/prosperity, from labor to capital, needs to be reversed.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump’s tax cuts – and botched tariffs – will add $1.2 trillion to federal deficits over the next 5 years. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interest rates up, dividends at historic lows. Everything's fine. Just fine.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

".. When pressed on the limits of his power, Trump left himself ample room: He would not rule out declaring a national emergency or invoking the Insurrection Act around the midterms .. 'I’m not committing to anything,' he says."

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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's a problem. Current tech darling Micron Technologies has seen its stock value increase by $370 billion—since July! For comparison, the ACA subsidies, which cost about $35 billion annually and Congress failed to extend, drove nearly 4 million people off coverage. National priorities.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In a new interview, Bill Gates speaks to the imminent dangers of unregulated AI that could easily result in mass death. He does not hold back. (Gift link to the full interview: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...)

So why is anything needed beyond — and is anything needed beyond? — the simply natural incentives under capitalism and normal corporate reputational management?

Well, I almost can't believe you're asking that. This is the most dangerous thing that humans have ever gone near.
In other areas, do we just say: Hey, release your drugs? There's no F.D.A., there's no airline safety board, there's no requirement that cars use seatbelts. Do we just use the liability laws to try and keep humans safe? You know: Oh, you're shipping opioids. Somebody should just sue you.
I mean, we've created a society that tries to keep people safe not by saying: Oh, we can bankrupt the person who does that.

And you say there's filtering. There's no filtering. You can take an open-source model that can create bioweapons and disable any monitoring of any kind, and this exists today.
So no, there is no filtering of any kind.
And so say you kill 100 million people — you want to use a lawsuit?
I almost can't keep a straight face.

And part of the reason I'm speaking so loudly — as loud as I can — is that you can't rely on the industry to self-regulate here. I mean, it's just insane.
The only question in my mind is: Do we wait until a cyberattack causes massive damage and a bioattack causes massive damage, and then the monitoring safeguards are required in these models to minimize the chance of that happening many, many more times? Or can we be wise enough to put these things in and require these things to be put in before millions of deaths?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These sound like non-trivial problems.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Inflation from the Iran War is significantly higher for working and middle class Americans than for top earners.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray

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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager"

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JustinGee69 @justingee69.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Larry Ellison now owns a major chunk of America media in order to amplify trump's free speech. Free speech for trump, and not for thee! Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV TikTok www.mobilize.us/ipaplus/even... Tesla Engineering HQ and xAi Hanover/ Page Mill Mondays, 5-6 ✊🏽

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Oh come on Mr Cyberpunk you can't really believe that stuff about Information Wants to Be Free" "Maybe not, but I also didn't believe that the CIA, the FBI and the Defense Dept would all be decimated and run by obvious charlatans

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another delayed IPO. First, Holtec. Now, SB Energy “has been delayed, as investors question the company’s sought-after valuation of $50 billion or more, according to interviews with four people familiar ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

*Well, he's an old man losing his personal war-of-choice with Ukraine, but now he's keen to start a war with NATO so at least he can have the statesmanlike dignity of being defeated by mighty NATO *What an ethnonational hick he turned out to be. What a know-nothing rube from the sticks

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Barchart @barchart.com · 21/09/2026

Who the hell is still Fearful except Bears? 😂

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the dangers of AI is the models’ capacity to social engineer humans. One possible outcome is that those humans (who usually don’t understand the tech) will then social engineer other humans. Through this process, we could see the spread of AI psychosis. (I think we’re seeing this already.)

Human figure says to computer, “Say ‘I am alive’”

Computer says, “>I am alive”

Human figure responds, “Oh my god”

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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

858 days until the next President is sworn in. Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride. www.timeanddate.com/counters/ful...

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Inauguration 2029

This countdown counter counts down days, hours, minutes and seconds to new year or another date

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Something worth remembering 25 years after 9/11: in the aftermath of catastrophe, people look around, they see what is needed, and they help.

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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Trump’s pledge of a $1 trillion-plus payout for a Republican mid-term victory is adding to investor concerns about Washington’s fiscal discipline and erratic policymaking." Business Week Trump's $5k per adult is 4% of GDP, which would drive the deficit to 10% of GDP, 3x more than is sustainable.

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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"President Trump has added more to the national debt than to economic output in his first 17 months in office." $1.40 in new debt for every $1 of output.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Iran has won the short-video meme war with Trump. Now consider this from our neighbors to the north. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUA...

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Canadian Resistance Army - Trade War (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by demonflyingfox

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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Who woulda thunk? "Investors" are on the knife edge between greed and fear--still wanting to profit from this trade while really knowing it won't pan out at the required scale.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Now you see why they try to call data centers “A.I. factories.” (via @gregdaco.bsky.social)

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Michelle @michellesea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I don’t care if he drapes the WH in gold lame or names a lake the Lake of Epstein. I want my children to be free, to be safe, to breathe clean air, to have medical care, safe food, an education, a working ecosystem, & be safe from some random guy in camo gear throwing them in a for- profit camp.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Progress.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Talents” depicts a dystopian United States run by Christian Nationalists. Their slogan is “Make America Great Again.” Published in 1998, many years before Trump’s political career, but this poem in the book prophesied Trump. (Poem from @zymplex.bsky.social)

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Meta shares tumble on news that the company has agreed to scale back its harming of children.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

*Of course the US Navy saw it coming *The Russian Navy wasn't keen to invade Ukraine, either *This isn't the fault of the Situtation Room. Ukraine and Iran are two undeclared wars-of-choice by ethnonational oligarchs

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

APOLLO: Since 2006, US debt “is up nearly fivefold over that period. The economy is up less than 2.5x.” (via Schwab) 🇺🇸

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

U.S. debt surpassed 100% of GDP this year and is on track to reach 188% over the next 30 years, according to new analysis by @bbkogan.bsky.social and @jaredb-econ.bsky.social. They find the debt would instead be trending down toward 48%, were it not for the Bush and Trump tax cuts.

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David Sandahl @dsandahl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Philadelphia Inquirer: More Republicans like Fetterman than McCormick

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When your three top allies are Russia, China and North Korea, YOU just might be the communist.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Further on Carney's speech: It was full of careful bits of rhetoric like ones noted here. More powerful when spoken, w with carefully matched emphasis, than they might look on the page. All the more powerful for being so simple and direct. Plain, short words. "Ask not..." "I have a dream.."

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We cannot accept what they have offered, and we will not give what they have asked.

In short, they asked too much and offered too little.

The new U.S. tariffs are designed to hurt and divide us.
They are a miscalculation, because Canadians will always take care of each other.

We are vacationing in our national parks. Buying Canadian products. Choosing Canadian.
Small acts of solidarity. Repeated millions of times that make a statement: we are the masters of our destiny.

Last spring, I warned that America is trying to break us so that they can own us.
And I promised: “That will never, ever happen.”

Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.
We are already giving ourselves more than they can take away.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

*I blame science fiction dystopias

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Because the American way doesn't mean a goddamn thing if apples cost five dollars. Basic dignity hangs by a thread. You hit that and hit those who did it, you'll get somewhere.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026

i'm actually a little shook by the way that mao and trump seem to be the same Type of Guy.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“.. Of every $1 the US federal government collects: 19.7¢ → interest on the debt 17.9¢ → national defense .. Interest passed defense in late 2024 and hasn't looked back — 20 straight months.” @bloomberg.com

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