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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 6h
AI xrisk people: ok we are particularly concerned about AI autonomous weapons Normal people: in principle I agree, but seems a bit far fetched that will happen tbh USG: today we are announcing we are doing AI autonomous weapons on purpose
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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: The same real estate firm that's tried to buy sooooo many Seattle elections just dumped $175,000 to make sure they can keep fucking over Tacoma tenants. Anyway, vote yes on Safe Homes For All! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...
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Seattle Real Estate Firm Tries To Buy Tacoma’s Election To Stop City From Enforcing Renter Protections
Goodman Real Estate, the same Seattle-based real estate company that’s tried to buy the Mayor’s office and a corporate majority on the Seattle City Council every cycle in recent memory, just threw dow...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
Women who have been in abusive relationships understand the kind of man Trump is better than any journalist & if we had a better media system we would have heard from those women more from the beginning. Journalists often *sound* like people trapped in those relationships! Same rationalizations!
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Farmer" comes from Latin "firmus," signature or contract. As in "tax farmer" or "farming out a task." That's the actual meaning of farmer; it 100% means wealthy landlords, not the people who do the work.
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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am now keeping this on speed-dial
Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This has really cracked open something for me. I had been thinking about free speech discourse in terms of hypocrisy, but this illuminates a much more consistent throughline (derogatory).
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.
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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW: Just recently a "change" candidate, Mayor Wilson is doing what Seattle Mayors do best, austerity for almost everyone but the police! The advocates she once stood shoulder to shoulder with decrying this age old strategy call this move "unsettling." www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayor-k...
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Mayor Katie Wilson Gives Cops’ Budget 13.9% Boost
Just recently a “change candidate,” Mayor Katie Wilson took a page from tradition in her first crack at the City budget: Cuts for almost every department besides the cops. In part, her hands were tied...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026
i think my takeaway was that the failure of this movie at the box office shunted us all into the grim future we now find ourselves in. and we should all feel bad, for letting true Cinema get snuffed out, for it was a rare and precious candle that can never be re-lit. also the costumes are awesome
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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If AI DOES become indispensable to the functioning of society, it won't even be because it's any better at doing stuff. It will be because large institutions that dictate the shapes of our lives have surrendered key functionalities to, like, three companies.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Taps the sign
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/09/2026
lmao
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: Archie McPhee owner apologizes for $10k donation to LGW, asks for refund and gives it to the campaign defending queer and trans people. Turns out, he didn't want to support anti-trans stuff, he just wanted to protect the interest of the ultra wealthy! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/archie-...
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Archie McPhee Owner Didn't Mean To Fund Anti-Trans Initiative — Just To Protect The Interests Of The Ultra Wealthy
Seattle internet enjoyers proclaimed over the weekend they would find a new quirky establishment from which to buy their rubber chickens when several viral posts exposed that the owner of novelty shop...
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barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Batman: TAS implies the existence of Batman: Any%.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026
If one of the "rewards" of affluence is that you get to opt out of the services everyone else uses -- roads & transit, aviation system, schools, healthcare, etc. -- then those services are inevitably starved of resources & decline. We have to force affluent people to be invested in them.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026
Agree with this & I'd broaden it: as income inequality increases, the affluent class increasingly strains to free itself of public services. Those services suffer & the flywheel accelerates. Only way to stop is to say, for certain things, no: you have to use the same shit as us.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026
This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Weird, she ‘moderated’ on trans rights and yet her opponent is still calling her a deranged leftist SJW. If only there was some kind of precedent for this so it could have been predicted in advance.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Let's say this triggers the mercy rule. If you can't find someone to lead an federal agency in exactly ten years, it's instantly abolished.
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"People are saying" doesn't count as news.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026
We really can't let ourselves get accustomed to this. He's telling the people of NC that he's going to let them die if they don't vote how he wants.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As it is National Voter Registration Day it is time for my screed against voter registration. Register and check your registration, but get mad knowing that someone requires you to do this busy work because they don't want you to vote
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a true thing I do. In my head, to amuse myself when I am bored, I write a version of Lord of the Rings where Gandalf sends Red Sonja to watch over Frodo instead of Strider. Not kidding, I have been writing this in my head for over a decade. She also falls hard for Arwen.
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Old Hobbes 🔜 Private Practice @hobbesq.bolasgang.com · 15/09/2026
We need this in these dark times
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026
Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm
Google Map of Seattle showing Lake Union renamed to Lake Confederacy
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HeckinHound🔞 @heckinhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This thread sums up my feelings on the Democratic Party pretty damn well. If we're constantly forced to settle for the "lesser of two evils", then evil is the best thing we'll ever get. Our country deserves better. And the only way the politicians will do better if we force them too.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
reminder if I can't tell if you're trying to be funny or if you're an asshole, I'll just block. And then repost this even though it's too late to do you any good. whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/t...
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The Failure Mode of Clever
So, apropos of nothing in particular, let’s say you wish to communicate privately with someone you’ve not communicated with privately before, for whatever reason you might have. And, wa…
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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merritt @merrittk.com · 14/09/2026
truly believe this is happening to a lot of people who don't even realize it, they're sliding rightward by virtue of having heinous shit normalized for them everyday on there
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
@attackerman.bsky.social reported on the Amnesty report at the time, and astutely compared it to the torture boxes at Gitmo, where Ron DeSantis, as a young military lawyer, oversaw the torture. So once again, mainstream media is months behind independent media. www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
One of the incredible ironies of this era is that the journalists with the least resources to fight malicious prosecution by the gov't are the ones telling the most truth about the camps. And the ones with the most resources and teams of lawyers on staff...are not.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you cannot be trusted to stand up for transgender Americans when they’re facing what some experts call a genocide, I don’t trust you to stand up for anything.
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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lrt: i've talked about this before on here, but far right political movements are in fact intrinsically antisocial and criminal, and can prob be stopped in every country in which they're rising simply by enforcing existing law against them
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Elendel @elendel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This thread sums up pretty well
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026
What I took from that era is that there is nothing the Republican Party can do that's awful enough, disastrous enough, to bring it any real accountability, because the whole system is wired to defend & excuse it. The Trump Era has only made that more nakedly obvious.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026
Nor do the Lone Progressive Dissenters who turn out to be right receive any reward or acknowledgement for it!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything
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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Has anyone who has ever told someone else that they have to compromise their human rights to win elections to stop fascism ever sit down and thought about what that means about the very system we live under? Like have you ever considered how insane you sound? How badly has this system broken you?
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I really wish more Dems would go meta on this and ask whose interests it serves that candidates for the United States Senate are being asked about how they would micromanage the eligibility rules for local youth sports leagues.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026
AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Less high-profile, but Clinton also failed to follow-up Reagan/Bush crimes, most notably Iran/Contra, which the GOP special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh wrote a damning book about, titled tellingly "Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up."
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