Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialGreenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 10hOkay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA 5763362213
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 7hBetter to be safe than sorry. www.xkcd.com/37/ 010
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 15hIs there a state of limitations involved with denaturalization and deportation? Serious question. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 15hTbf, any Democrat who vows to hunt them down and jail them is getting my vote. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Fellowship of the Ring Toss 110
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The Return of the Burger King 120
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"...genocide is about killing whole classes of people for who they are rather than for what they did" I'm glad we can agree on what's happening. It's just that Brett says it's ok to kill a whole class of people for what "they" did. 020
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Stephen's argument here is basically, the Israelis get to do a little genocide, as a treat. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Zohran Mamdani’s Moral ObscenityA mayor for one million Jewish New Yorkers fails his duty. 120
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Immediately after a 90 call with Putin. Surprise. 010
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialTess Owen @tessowen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I do wonder if the Department of Defense's plan to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan is actually Hegseth and company invoking the Old Testament judicial system—specifically the use of public punishments to purge communal evils 5404
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“…YOUR kids are another matter” 010
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Last three times I’ve tried to go to LGM, I’ve gotten this malware redirect. @drfarls.bsky.social 100
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My guess is that changing the names of things like this, AI, the Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario, appeals to him because it allows him to exercise power over people. Much like how his tariffs allow him to exercise power over foreign entities, since they must come to him for a “deal.” 030
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-... 6307140
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialCorey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The media's dilemma: should we cover that a guy contemplating how to dispose of Jews is cited by the VP as an intellectual influence or write another piece about vague connections between Democrats and Hassan Piker? 🤔 12866205
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Curious as to how many Klansman @justinwolfers.bsky.social has gone to lunch with. I suspect the answer will be something like, “Obviously not *those people*. Those ideas are beyond the pale and shouldn’t be included.” 040
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialTAINT Gaming Community @taintgaming.bsky.social · 02/10/2026<TAINT> is having an IN REAL LIFE costume contest. For the XIV players, you must be holding a sign or sheet of paper that says "FFXIV 2026" to qualify. First place will be awarded an item from the Final Fantasy XIV Store (up to a $25 value). 001
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look, I get why you don’t want 98 pound weaklings in the military. But “beardos”? As in people with beards? When did they become a class of people to be hated? Is that even a thing people say? I swear, the psychosexual hangups of MAGA will be the subject of many a dissertation. 020
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026He wants to just say faggots so bad… 120
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not necessarily. AI chatbots do not give repeatable answers. That’s just part of how they work 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They apparently haven’t told the AI that. 061
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I can’t wait until a Democratic President starts undoing the damage Trump has caused. I just hope they wait long enough to deport Rubio. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Lion, the Witcher, and the Wardrobe 231
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Also, it shows you exactly where to punch. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh you had my kid in your class? You must need a drink. 120
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This isn't an AI thing, but it explains why executives think AI is great. They *already* live like they have been kicked in the head by a horse. They already have a group of people making sure they've wiped their ass. They already don't have exposure to negative consequences. 414445
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This has nothing to do with AI. This has to do with the fact that he’s obscenely rich and his assistant usually handles this stuff. I am even doubtful that he pumped his own gas and his driver didn’t actually do it. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You said Federalist Society? Then hatechicken seems on-brand. 000
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades 544906879
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Halfway through day one of #ICCUnleashed and I think my brain is full. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026At “Avoiding Million-Dollar Mistakes in Automation Projects” at #ICCUnleashed and holy cow, it’s standing room only 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Someone should go back in his post history and find out if he was, indeed, on X that week. 010
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yes having our fertilizer shipped from a Russian proxy dictator half the world away is surely a better way to arrange things than getting it from our democratic, once-friendly neighbor here in the North America 742245478
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It looks like the @nytimes.com has outsourced nutritional information to Edamam, an #LLM driven AI service that is wildly incompetent. All the nutritional details for this recipe are wrong by several-fold. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026... 010
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What, I can’t pay with X, the everything app? 131
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Will he pardon them, though? Once he’s leaving office, he no longer has use for them. Why would he bother? Narcissists don’t have loyalty to others. 011
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why is it a young Christopher Walken? 100
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Prediction: if it looks like Trump's attempts to put his name on the Kennedy Center have failed with no route forward, he will demolish it. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So I was bored and started watching Creature Commandos on HBO Max. (It’s meh, not sure I’ll continue.) I don’t know what I went in expecting from an animated series, but one of the characters seriously packing would not have been on the list. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The next Dem administration has better shut thus shit down. Bring these people back and fast track them for citizenship as repayment. Just not before deporting Marco Rubio and his parents. 000
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The casual politicization of law enforcement is a huge blow to democratic norms - and like so many other blows, will be ignored because it’s easier to dismiss it as low-stakes Trump trolling. 725234
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’m not saying we need to hunt down and eliminate all AI researchers like Israel does with Iranian nuclear scientists, but maybe that needs to be on the table when we’re dealing with a good chance of human extinction. 000
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026At the very least, the assets of Anthropoc and OpenAI and all them need to be seized and brought under the control of the government. The alternative is like letting Exxon run its own private Manhattan Project AND letting them keep the resulting bombs. 100
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I mean, if SpaceX said that their launches had a 10% chance of blowing up the sun, do you think we’d let them continue? 100
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This means AI needs a response not just bigger than the ozone layer, but bigger than the global response to WWII. We had to nuke 2 cities to end that. The Nazis only killed maybe few dozen million people. This is a million times bigger. 100
eric-the-viking.bsky.social @eric-the-viking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If Anthropic really thinks AI has a greater than 10% chance of making the human species extinct in the next 10 years, it is a threat larger than anything we’ve ever seen before and should be dealt with accordingly. www.axios.com/2026/09/09/a...axios.comAnthropic insiders warn AI could kill all humansTheir warnings came just days after top OpenAI leaders, including CEO Sam Altman, said AI is speeding into a scary, uncontrollable phase. 100
Reposted by @eric-the-viking.bsky.socialSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum) 522984651
