Reposted by ElendelPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 6hAI 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 523044
Reposted by ElendelHannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW: 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...theburnerseattle.comSeattle Real Estate Firm Tries To Buy Tacoma’s Election To Stop City From Enforcing Renter ProtectionsGoodman 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... 03116
Reposted by ElendelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026Women 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! 1023046
Reposted by ElendelSarah 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. 112119
Reposted by ElendelJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3233851259
Reposted by ElendelEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This 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). 826759
Reposted by ElendelAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls 34479260
Reposted by Elendelevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Listen, 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. 431424338
Reposted by Elendelwill jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026don'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. 10681245
Reposted by ElendelHannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: 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...theburnerseattle.comMayor Katie Wilson Gives Cops’ Budget 13.9% BoostJust 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... 108239
Reposted by Elendellauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026i 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 1324422
Reposted by ElendelJury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If 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. 35416
Reposted by Elendels. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/09/2026lmao404media.coPeople Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AIOpenAI 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. 210232
Reposted by ElendelHannah Krieg @hannahkrieg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: 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-...theburnerseattle.comArchie McPhee Owner Didn't Mean To Fund Anti-Trans Initiative — Just To Protect The Interests Of The Ultra WealthySeattle 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... 3448
Reposted by Elendelbarleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Batman: TAS implies the existence of Batman: Any%. 202142702
Reposted by ElendelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026If 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. 1433857
Reposted by ElendelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026Agree 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. 1744180
Reposted by ElendelMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility 12539183
Reposted by ElendelAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026This 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. 21656504
Reposted by ElendelDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This 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. 30828258
Reposted by ElendelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026I love this slide. I really don't think the geopolitical implications of the clean energy transition have sunk in for most people. 9301138
Reposted by ElendelMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Weird, 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. 402944431
Reposted by Elendel🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Let'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. 315929
Reposted by ElendelWOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course. 181270440
Reposted by Elendelpsudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"People are saying" doesn't count as news. 1247068
Reposted by ElendelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026We 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. 451552462
Reposted by ElendelKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One 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. 7684771567
Reposted by ElendelMichael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 15/09/2026As 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 411736
Reposted by ElendelGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This 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. 5464954
Reposted by ElendelOld Hobbes 🔜 Private Practice @hobbesq.bolasgang.com · 15/09/2026We need this in these dark times 06612
Reposted by ElendelThe Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm 1052639545
Reposted by ElendelHeckinHound🔞 @heckinhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This 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. 0227
Reposted by ElendelDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026reminder 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...whatever.scalzi.comThe Failure Mode of CleverSo, 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… 0348
Reposted by ElendelGabe 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.’” 1731701737
Reposted by Elendelmerritt @merrittk.com · 14/09/2026truly 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 81624248
Reposted by ElendelGillian 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...forever-wars.comTorture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator AlcatrazAmnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison 51151470
Reposted by ElendelGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026One 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. 41119270
Reposted by ElendelWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If 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. 592321506
Reposted by Elendeltranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026lrt: 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 4620142
Reposted by ElendelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026What 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. 641670
Reposted by ElendelDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026Nor do the Lone Progressive Dissenters who turn out to be right receive any reward or acknowledgement for it! 415421
Reposted by ElendelClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026it'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 1638271153
Reposted by ElendelOlivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Has 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? 419754
Reposted by ElendelJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There 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. 17053041516
Reposted by ElendelJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I 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. 101237260
Reposted by ElendelKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026AI 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 512310633
Reposted by ElendelPaul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Less 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." 433870